RFR: 8296429: Remove os::supports_sse

Wed Nov 16 10:44:58 UTC 2022

On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 13:06:28 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> os::supports_sse only exists to be backwards compatible with linux kernels older than 2.4, which may not have SSE support. Since support for 2.2.x kernels ended in 2004 I think we can safely clean this out.
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> This was only relevant on 32-bit anyway right? 
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> Looks good. 
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> 2.4. was released in 2001, I think its safe to remove.

@tstuefe do you agree if I call this trivial and integrate?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11164