Merging ppc64 port into jdk9

[Volker Simonis]

On Friday, January 24, 2014, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am waiting approval from SQE and start thinking about merge itself.
>
> I think the best would be to merge into one of our group repos, for
> example jdk9/hs-comp, to get extensive Nightly and other testing before
> propagating into jdk9 master.
>
> The main question for me is what about jdk and top dir changes? They will
> not be tested until they are propagated into jdk9/dev.
>

What do you mean by "they will not be tested"? Don't you build full JDKs
for the hs group repos? Or do mean that you only run HS-specific tests for
those repos (i.e. don't you run the same JPRT runs like for the jdk9/dev
repo)? Nevertheless that would be at least a kind of build and smoke
testing for the complete port, right?
And we would have a chance to fix PPC-specific problems after the merge
right away in the group repository before they arrive in jdk9/dev.

I think my main concerns are that the integration may not cleanly resolve
or that it will result in build failures. Besides these problems, I agree
that testing the HotSpot should be the main priority. I don't expect
problems in the class library, once everything resolves and builds cleanly.

All that said, I'd prefer to integrate the complete port into one forest,
but of course it's up to you.


> Is it possible to split the merge and push Hotspot changes into
> jdk9/hs-comp/hotspot and the rest into jdk9/dev?
>
>
I don't remember that we have introduced any dependencies on your
platforms. But of course  we won't be able to do any testing on our
platforms until hs-comp will be integrated into jdk9/dev.


> I will try to do JPRT control run of stage-9 without Hotspot changes.


I guess that should work but I'm also interested in the actual results of
that run.


> thanks,
> Vladimir
>
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