RFR (M): 8036767 PPC64: Support for little endian execution model

[Lindenmaier, Goetz]

Hi,

basically this comes down to the setting of BUILDARCH in the 
defs.make file.  
I think it is useful the le-port is built into a directory linux_ppc64le_server (Infix le!!).
It’s the purpose of this path naming to keep incompatible builds apart.
Unfortunately BUILDARCH is also used to find the  submakefiles, so these
two extra ones are needed.

But the ppc64le port needs different compiler and linker settings, so there
is a good reason to have an extra ppc64le.make.

Only the platform_ppc64le file is completely redundant, but that's acceptable I
would say.

David, this is the complete change to hostpot for this port - there will not be new 
arch subdirectories in the C-code.


Please watch out, there are two threads of this because of the mail server 
problems on the weekend.

Best regards,
  Goetz.


-----Original Message-----
From: hotspot-dev [mailto:hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of David Holmes
Sent: Dienstag, 11. März 2014 09:59
To: Volker Simonis
Cc: HotSpot Open Source Developers; Alexander Smundak
Subject: Re: RFR (M): 8036767 PPC64: Support for little endian execution model

On 11/03/2014 6:36 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:29 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>> I don't see anything that actually controls what is built. Is it the case
>> that the new arch value will be reported by uname on the ppc64le system?
>>
>> (I cringe seeing a new top-level arch introduced for this.)
>>
>
> I didn't liked this too much as well in my first review and I think we
> can get along without a new top-level arch (see
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/ppc-aix-port-dev/2014-March/001790.html).
>
> But in the end I can live with both approaches (and having two
> top-level archs probably makes it slightly simpler to support them
> both in parallel) so I think finally it is up to you which approach we
> take.

I agree with your initial review. I don't see a LE build as a distinct 
architecture but a variant of ppc64.

Lets see what anyone else has to say.

Thanks,
David





> Regards,
> Volker
>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>>
>> On 7/03/2014 1:37 PM, Alexander Smundak wrote:
>>>
>>> This patch contains the changes to the build files to build JDK on the
>>> little endian PowerPC64 running Linux, and the changes to the source
>>> files to support little endian mode.
>>> This preceding related change
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8036767 added support for the
>>> ELFv2 ABi used on the little endian PowerPC64.
>>>
>>> Please review and test this change. I need a sponsor.
>>>
>>> The patch is at:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/asmundak/8036767/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> Sasha
>>>
>>