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

[Andrew Hughes]

On 13:12 Wed 18 Aug     , Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> 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+.
> > 
> > 
> > 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
>

Thanks, it is. I meant to do a search myself, but forgot.

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

On Mac OS X?

My concern was that this may affect Windows & Linux builds that don't
currently have an issue, but, if I'm reading that thread correctly,
pbuffers are not enabled by default and there is an issue on all
platforms with them enabled. Is this correct?

Thanks,
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Andrew :)
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