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

[Andrew Hughes]

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 :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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