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

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 8/18/21 5:22 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>> 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?

Yes.

> 
> 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?

Yes, correct.


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Best regards, Sergey.