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authorJames Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>2016-04-24 10:55:48 +0100
committerJames Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>2016-04-24 11:16:57 +0100
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parentprofiles: Remove virtual/(jdk|jre):1.8 masks (diff)
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profiles: Mask icedtea-bin:7 on arm, at least for now
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.
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diff --git a/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a/package.mask b/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a/package.mask
index 56e83609e5dd..8686f2f66dc1 100644
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+++ b/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a/package.mask
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
-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