RFR (trivial): 8219814: Help-info for pns(...) on Linux/mips lost

[Jie Fu]

Hi David,

Thanks for your attention to MIPS-port of OpenJDK.

As a matter of fact, we have maintained the MIPS-port of jdk8 for over 6 
years for Loongson CPU which is MIPS-compatible.
And now we are porting the latest OpenJDK to MIPS as well with the 
increasing demand of Loongson processors.
We sincerely hope that the MIPS-port can be merged into the mainline.

Is there anything we can do to make it as soon as possible?

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Jie


On 2019年02月27日 19:47, David Holmes wrote:
> On 27/02/2019 6:23 pm, Jie Fu wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Bug:    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8219814
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jiefu/8219814/webrev.00/
>>
>> When debug the VM in gdb and perform "call help()", the help-info for 
>> pns(...) on Linux/mips is lost.
>> However, it exists in jdk8.
>
> That's because there was some support for an active MIPS port in JDK 8 
> but that no longer exists. This change may be trivial but it belongs 
> in a project providing a MIPS port until such time as a MIPS port 
> becomes mainline.
>
> David
> -----
>
>> To support debugging on as many platforms as possible, it would be 
>> better to keep it.
>>
>> The patch has been tested on Linux/x86-64 and Loongson's 
>> Linux/mips64-port.
>> Could you please review it?
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jie
>>
>>