Merge ppc port into jdk7u-dev

[Lindenmaier, Goetz]

HI Andrew, 

it will basically be the same as in these webrevs.
I'll not do the tag changes, and skip the readme,
but besides that I don’t fell like changing too much.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/wr16/ppc-port/tree1/

Best regards,
  Goetz.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Haley [mailto:aph at redhat.com]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 21. Juli 2016 15:31
> To: Lindenmaier, Goetz <goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com>; Andrew Hughes
> <gnu.andrew at redhat.com>
> Cc: jdk7u-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: Merge ppc port into jdk7u-dev
> 
> On 21/07/16 14:29, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> > it's the same as in jdk9, except for the C1 port and maybe some recent
> implemented
> > intrinsics.  We'll continue downporting fixes.  We supply the security fixes
> so that
> > Oracle can push them for ppc right away, too.  Sometimes processes are in
> the way ...
> 
> OK, thanks.  I'm pretty sure that a clean patch for PPC can be
> approved fairly quickly.  It all depends on how clean it is.
> 
> Andrew.