[8u] [PING?] RFR: 8222737: [TESTBUG] Allow for tier 1 like testing in OpenJDK 8u

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 7/25/19 5:02 PM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> Any more thoughts?

I think we should go on with it. The lack of tier1 in jdk8u is a serious impediment for backports. I
have applied all the recent patches (04/jdk, 03/hotspot, 03/langtools/ 02/top), and tier1 works for
me. That is, it produces test failures that we really need to get on fixing.

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Thanks,
-Aleksey