RFR: 8258754: Gracefully fallback to the OpenGL rendering pipeline if Metal rendering pipeline initialization fails [v8]

Tue Jan 19 15:00:00 UTC 2021

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 11:14:25 GMT, Ajit Ghaisas <aghaisas at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This implements fallback to the OpenGL rendering pipeline if Metal rendering pipeline initialization fails.
>> I have tested this fallback on 10.15.4 by stubbing code. We need real testing on a system where Metal is not available.
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> Ajit Ghaisas has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   handle invalid requests to use default pipeline

Looks fine to me. You can clean up some redundant logic in a follow-on.

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Marked as reviewed by kcr (Committer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/lanai/pull/147