Merge ppc port into jdk7u-dev

[Andrew Haley]

On 21/07/16 16:52, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> As a compromise, I suggest doing a single patch for the main
> patch import (up to changeset 9ee6abf28de9) which corresponds
> to the whole port in the same way the initial AArch64 port was
> done, and gets rid of the problematic changesets.
> 
> The remaining changesets, which either have OpenJDK bug IDs or
> could trivially be assigned them, should be imported
> as-is, so they will then be recorded as fixed in OpenJDK 7, rather
> than being lost in a mega patch.

But if they are bug fixes to a new import then they will never have
been recorded as broken in OpenJDK 7, so why do they need to be
recorded as fixed in OpenJDK 7?

Andrew.