OpenJDK 6 b19 features?

[Gary Benson]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 19 February 2010 18:36, Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com> wrote:
> > Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > > On 18 February 2010 08:27, Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > Does this updated HotSpot have Zero in it?
> > >
> > > No, the patches were applied to hs17.
> > >
> > > We could backport it though.  With hs16, we'll be using what is
> > > now the alternate HotSpot build for IcedTea6 that is closer to
> > > the version against which Zero was applied upstream.
> > >
> > > Joe, what do you think about making Zero available upstream in
> > > OpenJDK6?  It already ships with IcedTea6 and builds have passed
> > > the TCK.
> >
> > Hmm.  I'm not sure.  What would making Zero available upstream
> > mean exactly for OpenJDK 6?  I'm inferring Zero in is sufficiently
> > new versions of HotSpot (hs17 vs hs16) given the presence of a
> > src/cpu/zero directory in the JDK 7 HotSpot repo.  Would the rough
> > proposal be to port the Zero fixes applied to hs17 in JDK 7 to the
> > hs16 in OpenJDK 6?
> 
> It would.  In fact, there would be no work to speak of as IcedTea6
> already supports applying it to both hs14 and hs16 (the latter being
> much less work).  Having it upstream would simplify the IcedTea
> build a little and possibly make it available to more people.
> 
> I'm sure Gary (Zero's main author) can also make some other good
> points for its inclusion... :-)

I wasn't really thinking about backporting the HotSpot part.  What I
was more concerned with was, if Zero _was_ in the updated HotSpot then
it would be good to backport the non-HotSpot parts to match.  These
are 6891677 and 6903453, specifically.

Cheers,
Gary

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