On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 01:33:13PM +0200, Mario Torre wrote: > > Ok, so I signed the OCA and sent in three patches to address build > > issues on Linux/sparcv9. Those patches were rejected with the argument > > that no one can test the code, even though Oracle themselves > > officially support Oracle Linux on SPARC [1]. > > Do you have a link to this discussion?
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2017-May/019301.html > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2017-May/026984.html > > So, how can I get those fixes in? > > As Dalibor said, this kind of patches tend to be very invasive, and as > a first contribution especially the entry barrier is quite high. You > may have better luck in trying to merge them into a separate Project > repository or start with a smaller set of changes. Those patches aren't invasive. One fixes a filename, one adds a missing #include and the third one adds a missing variable. All within the linux_sparc folder. > In the meantime perhaps I would suggest to get in touch with the > distro-pkg-dev people since they may help you, even if this is not > Linux specific. I am one of the maintainers of the Debian/sparc64 port and we have the possibility to add distro-specific patches. However, I don't want to carry these patches around forever but rather get them merged upstream and make them available to all downstreams, not just Debian. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
