RFR: AARCH64: Top-level JDK changes

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2014-11-07 18:34, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> CCing to build-dev and JDK9-dev since it is top level changes.
>
> Note, it will go into staging aarch64 repo.
>
> Vladimir
>
> On 11/7/14 9:21 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> The first patch: top-level build machinery changes.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8064357-rev-1/
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
I have a question about the changes in platform.m4.

I was a bit surprised to see that VAR_CPU_ARCH is set to "aarch64" and 
not "arm". The meaning of the CPU_ARCH variable is supposed to cover 
platforms with similar architecture, regardless of address size. But 
maybe I'm just too unfamiliar with aarch64, and it is not a trivial 
64-bit extension of arm, but more like a separate platform?

/Magnus