[aarch64-port-dev ] Freeze aarch64/jdk8

[Andrew Dinn]

On 25/02/16 10:25, Edward Nevill wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 10:11 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> The jdk8 development tree at aarch64/jdk8 has been in use for some
>> time.  I don't think we need it any more.  aarch64/jdk8u tracks
>> upstream jdk8u far more closely: it differs from upstream only in the
>> minimum number of places needed to get AArch64 to work.
> 
> Perhaps to close out the jdk8 tree it might be good to backport the following patch
> 
> http://openjdk.linaro.org/releases/1602/jdk8/patches/8592.patch
> 
> This is a really nasty, critical bug and people are still building from this tree,

I'm in the process of backporting all missing jdk8 hotspot patches into
jdk8u. Unfortunately, one of the patches applied cleanly but made the
changes in the wrong place (all those 0x1f and 0x3f substitutions for
shifts were carefully misaligned by hg patch into the wrong cases). I
have just started testing a newly patched build which corrects for this
failure.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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