Merge ppc port into jdk7u-dev

[Andrew Haley]

On 21/07/16 15:46, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 11/07/16 16:33, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>>
>>>>> On 11/07/16 15:28, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>>>>> I don't really want to lose all the history with just one huge
>>>>> patch either.
>>>>
>>>> In practice, from merging in ports, that is by far the best thing
>>>> to do.  The history can be found in the development tree.
>>>
>>> That's certainly not my experience. Having the history available
>>> on the working tree has proved invaluable on several occasions.
>>
>> I'm sure, but it makes an awful mess of the history of the tree
>> being merged into.  No.
> 
> It means when I'm backporting patches, I can actually tell what
> the changes are and why they were made, rather than just pointing
> back to one mega-patch.

I'm aware of the disadvantages.  However, it's more important that
the whole port be reviewable as a single patch.

> And, again, can we leave this until *AFTER* the CPU?

Yes.

Andrew.