RFR: JDK-8331859 : [PPC64] Remove support for Power7 and older

Tue Apr 8 16:07:16 UTC 2025

On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 15:23:20 GMT, Suchismith Roy <sroy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The Power ISA has a section "Appendix E. Power ISA Instruction Set Sorted by Opcode" at the end. We require Power8 which matches "Power ISA v2.07". All instructions from v2.07 or older are available.
>
> Hi @TheRealMDoerr  some instructions have "PPC" written in version..what does this mean ? 
> Also I do not see mfdscr in the appendix

Also should has_vsx be removed too ?

-------------

PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20262#discussion_r2033539066