[oe] [meta-java][PATCH] OpenJDK-8: For x86 and ARM

[Awasthi, Vinay K]

Thank you for trying out! At present hotspot does not compile for arm32 ...Various compilation issues in code that may requires Oracles assistance...

Yes mixed mode is working for x86....

Thanks,
-Vinay 
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> On Aug 28, 2015, at 12:13 AM, Richard Leitner <richard.leitner at skidata.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Vinay,
> thanks for working on that!
> 
>> On 08/28/2015 03:14 AM, Vinay K. Awasthi wrote:
>> Rebased it again with latest change-set and tested it on oe-core master with latest mate-openembedded.
>> 
>> There is no change in recipe.
>> 
>> This enables OpenJDK-8 jre/jdk for x86 and ARM.
>> 
>> This recipe is tested for arm (zero VM) and x86 (hotspot vm).
>> 
>> To build just use bitbake openjdk-8.
> 
> I successfully compiled and tested it for/on an ARMv7 Cortex A9 CPU:
> # /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/jre/bin/java -version
> openjdk version "1.8.0-internal"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-internal-leri_2015_08_28_08_47-b00)
> OpenJDK Zero VM (build 25.60-b23, interpreted mode)
> 
> Also X11/awt/swing works fine! Only problem for me is that ZeroVM is
> running in "interpreted mode". Therefore my programs are running really
> slow.
> 
> Was the "mixed mode" available/working in your tests?
> 
> IMHO a working JIT (=> mixed-mode) is a must-have for merging this patch
> upstream. What do you think Otavio?
> 
> thanks & regards,
> Richard L