[jdk8u-dev] Request for approval : 7188942: Remove support of pbuffers in OGL Java2d pipeline

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 8/18/21 4:36 AM, Vladimir Kempik wrote:
> Hello, doing it old-style as the bug is closed in JBS. > I would like to push this backport to jdk8u-dev to fix issue with 
jdk/test/sun/java2d/pipe/hw/RSLAPITest.java when JDK is built with xcode10+.
> 
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> The Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vkempik/7188942/webrev.01/
> The Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7188942
> Review Thread: https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2021-August/014161.html

FYI: Review request for the mainline is open, it might be useful:
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/2d-dev/2015-June/005493.html

And the reason why it should be backported to jdk8 is that in the new sdk the long deprecated 
pbuffer feature just stopped working.


> Testing : this patch passed full release-cycle testing in zulu8 for past 3 releases (jan, apr, jul 2021)



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Best regards, Sergey.