RFR: JDK-8325876: crashes in docker container tests on Linuxppc64le Power8 machines

Thu Feb 15 15:39:59 UTC 2024

On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:29:56 GMT, Christoph Langer <clanger at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Can we somehow determine the power version of the test machine and only return the older Ubuntu version on Power 8? Otherwise I'm concerned that this never gets updated for Power...

We could look at  /proc/cpuinfo and grep for POWER8

more /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
cpu		: POWER8 (architected), altivec supported
clock		: 3525.000000MHz

But I would prefer to keep it simple and always use Ubuntu 20.04 as long as we support Power8 .

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17867#issuecomment-1946344104