----- Original Message ----- > 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. >
Why are they not at least in IcedTea? > 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. Yes, that's what I was referring to. Over a hundred straight backports, plus some other patches that need to take the full 8->7->6 route. Sorry for the delayed reply. It turns out I wasn't filtering jdk6-dev specifically and it got lost in all the other OpenJDK traffic. > > 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 > > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
