Backport proposal of the Marlin renderer in OpenJDK8

[Andrey Petushkov]

Dear Laurent,

unfortunately Azul engineers and especially Andrew Brygin was overwhelmed by other work last days, e.g. like getting Java 13 builds out of the door.
so if you can afford waiting a few more days please give him chance to finish the patches

Andrey

19 сентября 2019 г. 10:09:08 GMT-07:00, "Laurent Bourgès" <bourges.laurent at gmail.com> пишет:
>Hi Andrew JH,
>
>As I have no more news from Azul, I will start redoing all the proper
>backport.
>
>I identified ~ 25 bug ids and the corresponding hg changeset ids in
>latest
>jdk repo.
>
>Le mar. 17 sept. 2019 à 20:53, Andrew John Hughes
><gnu.andrew at redhat.com> a
>écrit :
>
>>
>>
>> On 12/09/2019 20:54, Laurent Bourgès wrote:
>> > Hi Andrew B (& other Andrew in this thread),
>> >
>> > I have an idea that could satisfy both approaches:
>> > - As the azul team backported already jdk9+ patches into their
>openjdk8 /
>> > zulu repository, it implies jdk8u patches are ready for integration
>and I
>> > already reviewed the code: zulu could be considered as both an
>incubator
>> > that proved Marlin works on jdk8 in production (as I did on my
>github).
>> >
>> > Two solutions:
>> > - extract & apply all zulu-ready patches in order in jdk8u-dev
>> > - extract one big patch (from zulu) and apply it on jdk8u-dev
>> > I do not see any reason to use another incubator repository...
>> >
>> > I can review all individual patches or the all-in-one and we are
>all
>> done,
>> > up to the last patch backported in zulu 8 (version 0.9.1.1 merged
>in dec
>> > 2018 according to me).
>> >
>> > Moreover I already maintain a github branch for the Marlin /
>openjdk (8):
>> > https://github.com/bourgesl/marlin-renderer/tree/openjdk?files=1
>> > It is my reference to easily compare with any jdk8 codebase.
>> >
>> > From this first step, I will manage the missing patches to be
>up-to-date
>> > with latest jdk14 (v0.9.1.3 ie 2 patches) and future ones.
>> >
>> > What do you think ?
>> > This approach requires some work from zulu team to publish jdk8
>patches
>> > that I will review and I need a jdk8u sponsor to endorse, follow &
>push
>> the
>> > patch train or the all-in-one patch integration.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Laurent
>> >
>>
>> Is this Zulu public? Does it use OpenJDK bug IDs for the changesets?
>>
>
>Zulu code is available on demand, no public repository I know. I know
>they
>backported patches 1 by 1... but I only reviewed few snapshots.
>Nevermind.
>
>
>> As I said before, my preferred method is the backport of changesets
>> corresponding to individual OpenJDK bug IDs, so we have a clear idea
>of
>> what issues are now fixed in 8u.
>>
>
>Ok, I will setup a dedicated github repo to gather all unshuffled
>patches
>and write a script to import all of them in order on jdk8u/jdk repo.
>
>I estimate this work will be 1 month long (spare time only).
>
>Thanks for any feedback,
>Laurent