Question about non-integrated patches

[Edward Nevill]

On Thu, 2016-06-09 at 14:56 +0100, Alex Kashchenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been looking through the patches that are applied (or should be 
> applied) to jdk8u during the testing of the Fedora package. And found 
> three patches, that have been posted to list some time ago (month+), but 
> haven't been integrated:
> 
>   - 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/aarch32-port-dev/2016-February/000090.html

I reviewed this at the time and I was unhappy about the scale of
changes to shared code. The existing code puts -DARM in the sysdefs to
'borrow' from the Oracle closed port. Is this actually broken in some
way?

>   - 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/aarch32-port-dev/2016-March/000183.html

There was a lengthy review with Andrew Haley which did not reach any
conclusion.

>   - 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/aarch32-port-dev/2016-May/000275.html


This one seems to have slipped by. I need to take another look at it.

All the best,
Ed.