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

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 23:09 Thu 25 Sep     , Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 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
> 

Yes, IcedTea7 has all the IcedTea6 patches up to about a week ago,
including the Gervill overlay and Mark's sound patch.
-- 
Andrew :)

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