RFR: 8079203: aarch64: need to cater for different partner implementations

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Looks good.

Thanks,
Vladimir

On 5/5/15 7:29 AM, Edward Nevill wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 09:40 -0700, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
>> Wow, dependence on cpuinfo format. We are struggling with PICL and KSTAT format versions on SPARC. I hope Linux have
>> more fixed cpuinfo format.
>>
>> Should you add this info to _features_str?
>>
>
> Good idea. This will be very useful for debugging those hs_err logs.
>
> I have added this in the latest webrev
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~enevill/8079203/webrev.01
>
> The cpuinfo is just dumped in the features string as a sequence of hex
> values. Eg
>
> 0x41:0x0:0xd03:0(0xd07), simd, crc, aes, sha1, sha256
>
> Where the fields are
>
> Implementer:Variant:Part:Revision(Part2)
>
> Part2 is only printed in the case of a big little (hetrogeneous) system.
>
> All the best,
> Ed.
>