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

[Joseph D. Darcy]

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.
>   

I believe the plan of record was to replace the JDK 7 sound engine with 
Gervill, as done in OpenJDK 6; that is, the encumbered sound engine 
would be excised from JDK 7 entirely as opposed to maintaining it for 
ClosedJDK builds and using Gervill for openjdk=true builds.

Alex, please confirm.

Thanks,

-Joe