Two AArch64-related patches

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 03/25/2013 09:47 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Michal Vyskocil writes:
> >>
> >>  > I'm a maintainer of openjdk for SUSE and recently I've got two
> >>  > patches
> >>  > from our AArch64 team for openjdk7. I have no idea if porting
> >>  > of
> >>  > openjdk7 is important for this group, but it is probably better
> >>  > to
> >>  > try
> >>  > it.
> >>
> >> You may be aware that there is an AArch64 porting project.
> >>
> >> Mailing List
> >>   aarch64-dev at openjdk.java.net
> >>   http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/aarch64-dev
> >>
> >> The actual source code still isn't there, but hopefully will be as
> >> soon as we get all the legal details sorted out.
> > 
> > Is there an intention to backport the AArch64 port to 7?
> 
> It's entirely confined to HotSpot, so I don't think there's any
> need to backport anything: I hope that we'll be able to use
> a newer HotSpot with 7.
> 

Well, it'll still have to be backported to the 7u repositories, but
yes, I see what you mean; it will no doubt just get included in one
of the bulk updates by default.  But that's a long way off and I see
no harm in making Zero work in the meantime.

Has it been run on a completely AArch64 system yet?  I'm wondering if
any minor JDK issues might come up once a full build is done purely
on AArch64 without the emulator.

> Andrew.
> 
> 
> 

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