About time for b21?

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 09:36 Tue 02 Nov     , Gary Benson wrote:
> Joe Darcy wrote:
> > Gary Benson wrote:
> > > Joe Darcy wrote:
> > > > With Andrew's sync of HS19 into OpenJDK 6 and the recent batch
> > > > of security fixes coming real soon now, I think it is about time
> > > > to have b21.  I'd hold b21 for the remaining bug fixes pushed to
> > > > HS19 that are not quite promoted yet.
> > > >
> > > > Are there any other changes that should be in b21?
> > >
> > > 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

> Thanks Joe.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gary
> 
> -- 
> http://gbenson.net/

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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