Merge ppc port into jdk7u-dev

[Andrew Haley]

On 21/07/16 17:29, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> When backporting changes, you find differences between e.g. 7 and 8,
> and you need this kind of data mining, from tools like hg annotate, in
> order to establish why that change exists and whether or not it needs
> to be kept.

Yes, but I am still far from convinced that it makes sense to import a
broken port with a ton of patches on top.  It's a matter of keeping
the repo reasonably clean.  What is special about the list of bugs
that you provided?  Why is it OK to merge the changes before that?

Andrew.