[Buildroot] [PATCH v8 2/3] package/openjdk: package/openjdk: Add AArch64 support

Adam Duskett aduskett at gmail.com
Sat Mar 16 17:13:02 UTC 2019


Hey Thomas;
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 5:01 PM Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:52:32 -0400
> aduskett at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > From: Adam Duskett <Aduskett at gmail.com>
> >
> > OpenJDK has CPU ports for the AArch64 and ARM architectures.
> > Add support for AArch64 as the first.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <Aduskett at gmail.com>
>
> I am still confused by what happens on AArch64 if I only apply PATCH
> 1/3 in this series, but not PATCH 2/3.
>
That would be fine. AArch64 would still work, it just wouldn't be as fast.
This patch only provides optimization.

> Shouldn't PATCH 1/3 restrict package/openjdk to the set of
> known-working architectures ? Is there some architecture specific code
> in openjdk that would make it available only on a subset of the
> architectures we support?
>
Not that I am aware of, although I haven't compiled for every
architecture either.
However; Matthew Webber has compiled for PPC64 and it seems to also work
there.

Thanks!
Adam
> Thanks
>
> Thomas
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> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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