HotSpot 14

[Erik Trimble]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/5/15 Erik Trimble <Erik.Trimble at sun.com>:
>   
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all (especially Joe),
>>>
>>> Now that the HotSpot Express repositories are available, what is the
>>> plan for including hs14 in OpenJDK6?
>>>
>>> I did a pull of the base changeset from HS express (0) into OpenJDK6's
>>> hotspot repo. yesterday as a test, and it seems to apply fairly well.
>>> The conflicts all seem to be whitespace changes (though there's a lot
>>> of them -- ~210 files are affected).
>>>
>>> Do we still plan to maintain a version of HotSpot in OpenJDK6 or will
>>> HS Express just be used directly?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>       
>> Frankly, I think this is up to the Community.
>>
>> I'm still not 100% sure of the complete list of who has write access to the
>> OpenJDK6 stuff, but I /think/ the proper way to do this is not move any HSX
>> release into the main OpenJDK6 forest until there is  consensus that It's
>> Time.
>>
>> Now, that said, maybe It's Time Right Now.
>>
>>
>> Given that the HSX repos are going to be almost exclusively Sun-only
>> writable (in practice, not necessarily by design), I think that the VM in
>> OpenJDK6 should be pulled from an HSX repo, and then have various
>> community-desired patches applied there, rather than try to work directly on
>> an HSX repo.  That is, I expect the various HSX repos to be a reflection of
>> what Sun is doing, and the VM in OpenJDK6 should be a reflection of what the
>> Community chooses to do with the HSX work from Sun.
>>
>> As such, going forward, I _hope_ there is less and less of a requirement to
>> maintain IceTea, and that everything there can get moved over into the
>> appropriate OpenJDK repo.  Not that I have anything against IceTea, it just
>> would be nice to cut down on the amount of work needed to maintain all these
>> separate codebases.
>>
>> --
>> Erik Trimble
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>>
>>     
>
> I haven't seen any further movement on this; what's the progress on
> getting HotSpot updated/removed from OpenJDK6?
>
> It seems Sun just shipped a 6u14 release, and this included hs14b16.
> Strange then, that the new HotSpot Express repositories only have up
> to hs14b15.  Deja vu?
>   

I've been distracted with the JavaOne stuff and some internal work.

I'll push the latest hs14b16 work (it's one patch) into the HSX14 repo now.

We still need to have a discussion again about where future (external) 
work on HS14 goes, and if we want to push HSX14 to the Open6 repo now.



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Erik Trimble
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