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| -rw-r--r-- | profiles/arch/arm/armv7a/package.mask | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a/package.mask b/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a/package.mask index 8686f2f66dc1..50c309f4c7ec 100644 --- a/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a/package.mask +++ b/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a/package.mask @@ -2,17 +2,19 @@ # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Id$ +# James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> (05 Aug 2016) +# The ARM32 JIT code is broken as of 7.2.6.6. Without this, Java 7 is +# no faster than Java 8. It seems more likely that Java 8 will see a +# new HotSpot port before this breakage is fixed. Earlier versions +# have vulnerabilities so please switch to icedtea(-bin):8. +dev-java/icedtea:7 +dev-java/icedtea-bin:7 + # James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> (09 Jan 2016) # This is built for armv6 so unmask against the wider arm mask. -dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin -dev-java/oracle-jre-bin -# James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> (24 Apr 2016) -# The ARM32 JIT code is broken as of 7.2.6.6. Without this, Java 7 is -# no faster than Java 8. Earlier versions have vulnerabilities so -# either switch to icedtea-bin:8 or build icedtea:7 from source. -dev-java/icedtea-bin:7 - # James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> (24 May 2015) # This is built for armv7a so unmask against the wider arm mask. -dev-java/icedtea-bin |