Hi Andrew, > at this, and then you can critique > the result rather than what you think I'm saying. That's good! Facts not theory!
> However, I don't see > the sudden rush for this. We're not having another release until October. I started working on this, and I just want to get this off my list. Also, I'm off for 3 weeks after 28.7. So if there was a todo for me, I should know now. > > And ... probably 6f0b8f13db4d, "New files for template interpreter." should > > be used. > Why so? It seems like something that was missing from the preceding > changeset, > but I'll check. All before that is mere porting changes, some without bugIDs. Best regards, Goetz. > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Hughes [mailto:gnu.and...@redhat.com] > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2016 6:14 PM > To: Lindenmaier, Goetz <goetz.lindenma...@sap.com> > Cc: Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com>; jdk7u-dev@openjdk.java.net > Subject: Re: Merge ppc port into jdk7u-dev > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Hi Andrew :), > > > > sorry, I don't understand. > > > > > $ hg pull -r 9ee6abf28de9 ../../ppc7/hotspot > > This will give you most of the changes we did without openJdk bugid. > > Just the ones Andrew Ha. doesn't want at all as I understand. > > You will have to do some meaningful merges, without being able > > to build, as, e.g., Better Byte Behaviour will be missing. > > > > One merge and the result can be compared against the ppc-aix-port repo > at the same point. We wouldn't push that; we'd merge into an interim > repository then just apply the patch to 7u, which is what you were > proposing to do with the whole thing, I believe. > > > If you form the diffs you have after the merge into a new > > changeset and submit that to jdk7u/jdk7u, you still can't > > pull the remaining changes for the port. The ones without bugid > > still will come along. > > Yes, I know; you can't do that either way if you don't want those > changesets. > > > If you do all of them individually on top this really is a major effort. > > You would have > > 1.) to find all changes in ppc-aix-port and not in jdk7u/jdk7u > > hg in tells you this. > > > 2.) export all of them > > 3.) select a useful order of them > > 4.) edit the patches so they reflect the changes done in merges > > IME, this is a 5-10 minute job with most of the work actually being > checking the final result is the same as the original tree. > > > 5.) submit them to jdk7u/jdk7u > > > > If you have all these you can make a patch queue and do a test build, > > and then move the fixes required to the proper patches. > > > > Hmmm... sounds like quite some work. > > > > How long will the CPU keep you busy? > > > > The 7 work is done. It's waiting on successful testing before submission. > > I'll try and find some time to look at this, and then you can critique > the result rather than what you think I'm saying. However, I don't see > the sudden rush for this. We're not having another release until October. > > > And ... probably 6f0b8f13db4d, "New files for template interpreter." should > > be used. > > Why so? It seems like something that was missing from the preceding > changeset, > but I'll check. > > > > > Best regards, > > Goetz. > > > > > > > > > -- > Andrew :) > > Senior Free Java Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) > > PGP Key: ed25519/35964222 (hkp://keys.gnupg.net) > Fingerprint = 5132 579D D154 0ED2 3E04 C5A0 CFDA 0F9B 3596 4222 >
