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

[Andrew Hughes]

On 13:36 Thu 19 Aug     , Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards, Sergey.
> 

Ok, thanks. Consider this approved for 8u.
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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