IcedTea7 Forest Updated

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 
> On 22/02/12 10:12 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > I've bumped the forest to jdk7u4-b11 with hs23b14, with the hope
> > that people
> > can start testing earlier this time, before u4 is released.
> >
> > Changes to the IcedTea7 tree to use this will follow.
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Unless I miss-understand whats been done here, it means that the Zero
> resurrection is removed/ undone... it only worked with hs22 / early
> hs23 (b01/03?). [After that the  TARGET_ARCH_NYI_6939861 flag and
> code are completely removed.]
> 
> 
> Chris

No.  It was merged with the new HotSpot changes in u4.  Changes like the
OBJCOPY change are definitely still there (I had to merge that manually).
The NYI flag was removed in:

changeset:   3231:15d394228cfa
user:        jrose
date:        Thu Jan 19 13:00:11 2012 -0800
summary:     7111138: delete the obsolete flag -XX:+UseRicochetFrames

I pre-approve http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea7-forest/hotspot/rev/433e4570d57c going back to 2.1
if it hasn't already.  This branch uses hs22 and will continue to do so, receiving
only security & approved backports as usual.

I don't think it helps anyone to stick with some old release while OpenJDK
development continues at full steam... and we're only talking about the 7
update stream here, not 8!  The longer we wait to pull in new changes from
the 7u tree, the more change there will be, which means more work for everyone.
It also makes it near impossible to upstream changes, as we're working on something
different from what upstream is.

Ideally, Zero et. al. should be working with the hsx trees that I believe then feed
into 8 and 7u.  That's a steep hill to climb at this point, I know, but it's where
we need to be.
-- 
Andrew :)

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