[PING] Re: About time for b21?

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 13:31 Tue 23 Nov     , Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > > > Building HS19 with Zero on PowerPC requires a fix (6994130).
> > > > There's a webrev (for JDK7, but it's the same) here:
> > > >
> > > >  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbenson/zero-ppc-fix/
> > > >
> > > > Would it be possible to backport this?
> > >
> > > Once 6994130 is approved and integrated into JDK 7, I approve it
> > > being backported to OpenJDK 6.
> > 
> 
> It's now in b119 so presumably it can be backported?  Without it, the PPC build is broken
> which is a regression from b20.
> 
> We're still waiting on:
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-October/002080.html
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-September/002008.html
> 
> I'd also like to get:
> 
> changeset:   2527:f1bafc4f249d
> user:        peterz
> date:        Tue Jun 29 14:42:30 2010 +0400
> summary:     6963870: NPE in CompoundBorder.getInsets()
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/rev/f1bafc4f249d
> 
> in as mentioned in http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-August/001954.html
> 
> As no solution for the hs19 bug has been forthcoming, I suggest we disable compressed oops
> as we have in IcedTea6: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2010-November/010877.html
> 

The compressed oops issue has now been fixed:

changeset:   1873:4da76e32c0be
user:        never
date:        Wed Dec 01 10:16:31 2010 -0800
summary:     7002666: eclipse CDT projects crash with compressed oops
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot-comp/hotspot/rev/4da76e32c0be

Is there any movement on any of these patches being approved for OpenJDK6?

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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