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

[Xerxes Rånby]

On 2011-07-11 17:36, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 13:07 Mon 11 Jul     , 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.
>
> Missed this in my initial review; you don't update NEWS.
> Please do so.  This is more important than the numerous
> minor JamVM changes which were all meticulously documented.
>
> Thanks,

Thanks, a NEWS entry have been created and committed here:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/ad05410af28a

Xerxes