OpenJDK 6 build 12 source posted (directaudio/alsa backend)

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Joe,

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 06:12 -0700, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 12:54 -0700, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> >> Mark Wielaard wrote:
> >>> Although not in your changelogs, I saw you also included two of my fixes
> >>> for the ALSA directaudio backend which I posted back in May on
> >>> sound-dev, and which are included in icedtea already.
> >>> - The sloppy open/close patch:
> >>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/sound-dev/2008-May/000053.html
> >>> - The ALSA native lock patch:
> >>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/sound-dev/2008-May/000054.html
> >>>
> >>> Although it makes some applets that use some primitive sound output work
> >>> better I never got a real response. Did you get someone from the sound
> >>> team to look at these patches? They do seem to work for me and the few
> >>> test users of those applets, but a full review by one of the sound
> >>> engineers would be appreciated. They don't seem to be in the JDK7 tree.
> >>>   
> >> No; the patches were not explicitly reviewed; Alex, please take a look 
> >> at them.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >   
> >> Neither Gervill nor your patches have yet been incorporated into JDK 7.
> >
> > What is the reason for having them in JDK6, but not in JDK7?
>
> Just no one at Sun has gotten around to doing it yet for JDK 7.

Is there anything Sun specific that is needed for moving stuff between 6
and 7? Need any help? If it comes from icedtea then Andrew has almost
certainly already created patches against 7 for icedtea7.

Cheers,

Mark