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

[Alex Menkov]

Yes, the plan is to drop JavaSound encumbered code from JDK7 (and add Gervill).
I still have no all required approvals for integrate Gervill into JDK7 :(

Regards
Alex

Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> 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
>