[PATCH]: linux-sparc build fixes

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 06:52:14PM +1000, David Holmes wrote:
> >That's surprising because depending on where your office is, it may
> >just be a matter of walking down an aisle and knocking on a colleague's
> >door to get access to the necessary test setup given the fact that
> >Oracle is officially shipping and supporting Linux for SPARC [1,2].
> 
> That doesn't necessarily translate into the OpenJDK or Oracle JDK supporting
> the Linux-sparc platform. It was previously supported in JFK 7 and early 8
> IIRC but is no longer provided in 8u and is not a platform supported in 9.

It should translate, however :-). If I were to buy an Oracle server, I
would expect Oracle software to run on it.

> >Well, I'm not so sure. openjdk-9 did build in the past (b88), so I
> >don't think the code is completely bit-rotten [3].
> 
> Sure it built in the past but b88 was some time ago and as I said once you
> get past the hotspot build problem you may find other problems.

Which can also be fixed by additional patches. I also don't see why this
is an argument to fix existing issues. They live inside the
linux_sparc subfolder and therefore don't affect the release
architectures. So, merging the fixes won't hurt, but it makes the work
for downstream Linux distributions easier.

Thanks,
Adrian

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