Upstreaming Zero

[Gary Benson]

Hi all,

I kicked off the process of getting Zero into the upstream OpenJDK
sources, by filing a bug for the core build patch:

  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100011

The patches in IcedTea will need attention once this stuff starts
being committed to OpenJDK.  For IcedTea7 it should be simple; the
corresponding patches can simply be deleted.  IcedTea6 will be
trickier -- the HotSpot changes will come when the HotSpot tarball
changes, but changes outside that won't, so the non-HotSpot parts
will need retaining and in some cases modifying.

I can help with all of this, but only if I know you need help!
If anyone plans to either bump IcedTea7 to a new OpenJDK build,
or to bump the HotSpot in IcedTea6, then please let me know.

Building IcedTea7 directly from hg (rather than using a release)
will be problematic during the transition period.  I don't see
an easy way around this, but it should be fairly simple to work
around for non-Zero builds.  Shout me if you're having problems
and I'll help.

Cheers,
Gary

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