RFR: JDK-8012212 - link against kstat on solaris x86

[Nils Loodin]

Yes, there are changes in the pipe that needs this change.

Regards,
Nils Loodin

On 04/15/2013 07:00 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> Nils,
>
> Do you have future work in plan for this? You should do this change only
> when you add a code to really use data from kstat on x86.
> Currently kstat is only used on SPARC to get CPU information (since it
> doesn't have cpuid instruction). No kstat counters are read in VM.
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> On 4/15/13 5:35 AM, Nils Loodin wrote:
>> And here is the actual link to the webrev... sigh.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~nloodin/8012212/webrev.00/
>>
>> /Nisse
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/15/2013 11:50 AM, Nils Loodin wrote:
>>> Any reviewers for this unassuming change to not exclude sparc from
>>> linking against kstat?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Nils Loodin
>>