Older unused Intel platform check functions

[Bernd Eckenfels]

Hello,

I was checking out to see a hint of what’s the minimum microarchitecture is, which makes sense to require for OpenJDK. I was not very successful and it probably depends on compiler toolchain and distribution. Does somebody have some insights?

Having said that I noticed the following:

The 20 years old netburst architecture has a test function but it’s not used to make feature decisions in the JDK, it is just used to construct a SSE feature string, where it can be safely removed (the feature flags are reported anyway, worst case use cpu_family_description instead?)

VM_Version::is_netburst

If you want to keep it, it’s probably more consistent to rename it to is_intel_netburst

VM_Version::is_default_intel_cascadelake
VM_Version::is_intel_cascadelake

Those two seem not to be used anywhere, can probably be removed as well.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/2624324ac216aadc938a870075f6fad287fedf05/src/hotspot/cpu/x86/vm_version_x86.hpp#L716

Greetings
Bernd


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