RFC: Removal of the ARM assembler port in Icedtea6, unbreaks Zero and Shark builds.

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 17:07 Mon 11 Jul     , Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 07/11/2011 04:14 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > On 13:34 Mon 11 Jul     , Matthias Klose wrote:
> >> On 07/11/2011 01:07 PM, Xerxes Rånby wrote:
> >>> Hi team.
> >>>
> >>> The ARM assembler port that have been broken and unmaintained for about
> >>> a year are currently preventing Zero and Shark from building when using
> >>> the new Hotspot in OpenJDK b23.
> >>>
> >>> The attached patch fixes Zero and Shark builds by removing the ARM
> >>> assembler port from the icedtea6 tree.
> >>>
> >>> I will also remove the following files:
> >>> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/asm_helper.cpp
> >>> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/bytecodes_arm.def
> >>> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/cppInterpreter_arm.S
> >>> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/thumb2.cpp
> >>> arm_port/hotspot/tools/mkbc.c
> >>> patches/arm.patch
> >>>
> >>> Ok to push?
> >>
> >> Looks fine. Note that I'll continue to create releases from the 1.8 branch (the
> >> last branch I'm using the arm assembler port).
> >>
> > 
> > As I mentioned some time back:
> > 
> > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2011-March/013215.html
> > 
> > I won't be maintaining 1.8 once 1.11 is released, which will be sometime in
> > the latter half of this year, once our initial IcedTea7 releases are out of
> > the way.
> > 
> > Do you intend to pick this up yourself?
> 
> I'm still release manager for the 1.8 branch, or did I miss something?
> 

You missed the last seven releases if that's the case.  The last entry from
you in the ChangeLog is 2010-08-27.

>   Matthias

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Andrew :)

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