8182163: Missing #include "logging/log.hpp" in vm_version_linux_sparc.cpp
Reviewed-by: ehelin, stuefe
Contributed-by: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de

8151939: VM_Version_init() print buffer is too small
Summary: Increase buffer size, use logging to print out version and os information
Reviewed-by: kvn, rprotacio, mockner

8140424: don't prefix developer and notproduct flag variables with CONST_ in product builds
Reviewed-by: goetz, stefank

8134161: JVM is creating too many GC helper threads on T7/M7 linux/sparc platform
Summary: Recognize the T7/M7 platform.
Reviewed-by: dcubed, kvn, jmasa

8062672: JVM crashes during GC on various asserts which checks that HeapWord ptr is an oop
Summary: Crashes were caused by not disabling UseMemSetInBOT as should be done on sparc. Added support for picking up blkinit as a platform feature if available on Linux sparc. This is needed to avoid enabling UseMemSetInBOT when running on this platform.
Reviewed-by: jwilhelm, brutisso

8046769: Set T family feature bit on Niagara systems
Reviewed-by: kvn, iveresov

8044071: Print format/argument warnings
Reviewed-by: drchase, dholmes, lfoltan, twisti

6989984: Use standard include model for Hospot
Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

6941466: Oracle rebranding changes for Hotspot repositories
Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

6719955: Update copyright year
Summary: Update copyright year for files that have been modified in 2008
Reviewed-by: ohair, tbell

6693457: Open-source hotspot linux-sparc support
Summary: Move os_cpu/linux_sparc from closed to open
Reviewed-by: kamg