How to host HS14 stable? (Was: RFC: Change name of default HotSpot to 'default')

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 16:42 +0000, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/2/19 Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org>:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 11:09 +0100, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 10:47 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> >> > Yes, my plan was to branch at the commit just before the HS15 tag in
> >> > jdk7/jdk7/hotspot appeared. But it would be good to get confirmation
> >> > that is the right branch point.
> >>
> >> I can look that up again...  The changeset right before the fork is:
> >>
> >> fc6a5ae3fef5
> >>
> >> which bumps the HotSpot version to 14.0-b10.
> >
> > Thanks. I am waiting for Joe to reveal the open hs14 repo that he wants
> > to base openjdk6 on first though before creating another one for now.
> > Unless that takes too long of course, then we can always start tracking
> > from that revision.
> >
> We can bump IcedTea6 to that revision now with a one-line change, then
> wait for post-14 changes from a backported HotSpot tree.

That seems like a good plan. There were some important fixes since the
version we are using now. Attached is the proposed patch. Is that what
you had in mind? (Still bootstrapping here...)

> >> But I was also told that 14 isn't stable yet, it's just in the
> >> stabilization phase.  When you really want something rock solid you
> >> should go with HS11.
> >
> > Yes, you can even get this with icedtea configure
> > --with-hotspot-build=original but that needs more patches (e.g for sparc
> > support) and for zero/shark it is too old, so it needs too much
> > backporting to keep current in the long run.
> >
> Now we are post 1.4, the plan is to drop support for that, unless
> someone is interested in maintaining it.  Anyone?

I suggest we remove support as soon as we have an official hs14 repo.

Cheers,

Mark

diff -r 92c4cc753f06 hotspot.map
--- a/hotspot.map	Thu Feb 19 11:32:45 2009 +0100
+++ b/hotspot.map	Mon Mar 02 10:31:33 2009 +0100
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # version changeset md5sum
-default	f9d938ede196 c8f78d48ac83987bc2adebeebcd354e9
+default	fc6a5ae3fef5 1c3510387dccdb4907d0fd2f1c58e372