HotSpot Changes in 7u

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Alejandro,

can you please tell us (or at least estimate) when the 7u12 forest will be
created?
I saw that 7u-dev/hotspot already contains various jdk7u12 tags (up to
jdk7u12-b07).

Regards,
Volker
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Alejandro E Murillo <
alejandro.murillo at oracle.com> wrote:

>
> On 1/11/2013 4:17 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>
>> On Jan 11, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Chris Phillips @ T O <ChrisPhi at lgonqn.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi
>>>
>>> On 11/01/13 12:29 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>
>>>>> On 21/12/2012 9:51 AM, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am checking these changes into hsx24 now.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Coleen.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Yes, thanks Coleen for taking this on.  I see they've now appeared in
>>>> 7u/hotspot.
>>>>
>>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/**jdk7u/jdk7u/hotspot/rev/**c707a5af0d71<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/hotspot/rev/c707a5af0d71>
>>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/**jdk7u/jdk7u/hotspot/rev/**9d98c1eb82b0<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7u/jdk7u/hotspot/rev/9d98c1eb82b0>
>>>>
>>>> Any chance of getting:
>>>>
>>>> 8000780: make Zero build and run with JDK8
>>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/**jdk8/jdk8/hotspot/rev/**a3e2f723f2a5<http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/hotspot/rev/a3e2f723f2a5>
>>>>
>>> This required a backport that has been reviewed by Roman and
>>> Christian (Thanks!).
>>>
>> Right.  I remember reviewing this.  But I'm not sure if it's not already
>> too late to make 7u12.  Alejandro would know.\
>>
> No it's not too late.
> We didn't take snapshots in the last couple of weeks (unable to run PIT),
> I did a last minute snap this week and will probably do one next week
> but we want to reserve these for testing  new features only, based on the
> 7u12 schedule,
> after that we have a few more weeks for bug fixing and I will make sure to
> get this in. Hopefully this patch will still apply. Apologies for the delay
>
> Thanks
> Alejandro
>
>
>
>> -- Chris
>>
>>    See attached email's from Alejandro and Christian.
>>>
>>>
>>>  in too?  Or is it not appropriate?
>>>>
>>>> CCing the original reviewers & author.
>>>>
>>>>  Chris
>>>
>>> <Attached Message.eml><Attached Message.eml>
>>>
>>