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

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Fri, 2019-07-26 at 10:44 +0200, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> 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.

Agreed. Adding jdk8u-fix-request to the bug.

Thanks,
Severin