2012-05-11 22:17, Dalibor Topic skrev: > On 5/11/12 12:41 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote: >> I'll second that. I wasn't even aware of this release until Deepak pointed >> it out last week. > > Lana started the promotion process in April: > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2012-April/002666.html > >> Are we still working on OpenJDK6? The last time I posted >> a patch it was suggested that things were winding down, so I'm a little >> surprised >> to see another release. We have a whole stack of patches still needing >> upstreaming >> if they are wanted. > > I think that releases for OpenJDK 6 make sense for the CPUs until November. > Xerxes > mentioned some backports here: > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2012-April/date.html - are > those the > fixes you mean?
No those two new patches are still not merged into IcedTea and under bug triage, I brought them up for discussion to hopefully solve the two most frequent crashing bugs reported in to the IcedTea team. The following two icedtea bugs indicate something odd in OpenJDK 6 synchronizer.cpp that look similar to the http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2012-April/002669.html - JVM crashes when heavyweight monitors are used > # Internal Error (synchronizer.cpp:1401), pid=1232, tid=1455453296 > # guarantee(mid->header()->is_neutral()) failed: invariant http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=887 - The bug for minecraft server on linux http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=904 - unhandled signal 11 : os_linux_zero.cpp:236 And the following bugs indicate something odd in OpenJDK 6 that looks similar to http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2012-April/002670.html - arraycopy stubs place prebarriers incorrectly http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=874 I think Andrew Huges was refering to the following large set of backports currently in use in IcedTea 6 builds: These 100+ patches are all backports from the OpenJDK 7/8 hg trees to OpenJDK 6. http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/file/6ae19889a9e0/patches/openjdk It would be really nice if all of these patches would be applied to OpenJDK 6 directly. The IcedTea project also host a large set of new patches for OpenJDK 6 that are in various state of upstreaming progress: http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea_JDK6_Patches When we manage to upstream one of these new patches then we quickly add a new backport to the IcedTea6 patch folders, patches/openjdk , based on the upstream reviewed OpenJDK 7 and 8 commit. Cheers Xerxes
