Merge of PPC port into IcedTea 2.x for OpenJDK 7

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Andrew,

too bad you couldn't make it to FOSDEM this year.

Did you encounter any problems with the C++Interpreter and Zero after the merge?
We tried to be carefully to not break Zero, but we never actually
build and tried it out.

Is there any forecast when the port will appear as a regular package in Fedora?

Thank you and best regards,
Volker


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just about done with a merge of the PPC port into our IcedTea
> 2.x tree which supports OpenJDK 7 (currently u60 b03). I'd like
> to enable the port by default, in preference to Zero, but I'm under
> the impression that not all PPC64 boxes will support it. Is there
> a way of detecting whether the processor can support the port,
> via the likes of /proc/cpuinfo or cpuid?
>
> Thanks for all your hard work on this. We're already seeing much
> faster results than when using Zero!
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Andrew :)
>
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