merging of Hotspot with MIPS support

[Yongqiang Yang]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Xerxes Rånby <xerxes at zafena.se> wrote:
> Hi Yongqiang!
>
> On 2011-04-25 04:47, Yongqiang Yang wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> We have ported Hotspot client to MIPS compatible processors, and code
>> can be got from  http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/openjdk6-mips/.
>
> The MIPS ports looks like it are based on OpenJDK6 and Hotspot hs14, the
> same hotspot used in the IcedTea6-1.8 release.
>
>
>> I want to know how to merge the code to Icedtea.  Is there a site
>> which describes the steps we should take and what's the requirements?
>
> In order to merge the MIPS port with IcedTea6 you will have to update the
> MIPS port to be compatible with the same hotspot used by IcedTea6 HEAD.
>
> The IcedTea6-1.8 release branch uses the same hotspot version hs14 as the
> MIPS port so a merge at this point are easy but its too late to go in
> because the release branches do not accept new features.
>
> The IcedTea6-1.9 release uses hotspot version hs17.
> The IcedTea6-1.10 release uses hotspot version hs19.
> The next IcedTea6-1.11 release are currently based on hs20, HEAD.
>
> For a merge to happen its required to update the MIPS port to hs20 and merge
> it against the current development HEAD at:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6
>
> You can track when the release branches forked from the IcedTea6 tag list:
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/tags
>
> I suggest you start by first checkout the IcedTea6-1.8 branch-point
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/9420faca6468
> and merge at this point.
>
> Then pull in the IcedTea6-1.9 branch-point merge and fix any issues when
> using hs17.
> Then pull in the IcedTea6-1.10 branch-point merge and fix any issues when
> using hs19.
> Then pull in the IcedTea6 developement HEAD, merge and fix any issues when
> using hs20.
>
> When this are done please send in a patch.
Thank you very much.  I will do as you suggested.

Cheers,
Yongqiang.
>
> Cheers
> Xerxes
>



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Best Wishes
Yongqiang Yang