RFR (M): 8036767 PPC64: Support for little endian execution model

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 2015-02-23 15:57, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> > I think the jdk changes with ppc64le as CPU make sense.
> 
> Jumping in a bit late in the discussion...
> 
> I agree with Erik, having ppc64le as CPU seems the right way to go. I'm
> just wondering if you have checked the makefiles if there are tests for
> ppc64 elsewhere that will now fail for ppc64le. I noticed that there was
> one such change in the configure script, but there might be more in the
> makefiles themselves.
> 
> /Magnus
> 

These are the revised versions of the webrevs:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/rh1191652/webrev.02/root/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/rh1191652/webrev.02/jdk/
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/rh1191652/webrev.02/hotspot/

(HotSpot is unchanged, dropped the sound changes from JDK)

The only other ppc64 block I found is specifically AIX/ppc64 to exclude
the serviceability agent:

make/gensrc/Gensrc-jdk.jdi.gmk:ifeq (, $(filter $(OPENJDK_TARGET_OS)-$(OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU), aix-ppc64))
make/Import.gmk:ifeq (, $(filter $(OPENJDK_TARGET_OS)-$(OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU), aix-ppc64))

Does AIX support ppc64le?

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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