Re: revisiting the architecture support on Power

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 01/29/2016 11:08 AM, Steve Munroe wrote:
> > On 01/29/2016 09:55 AM, Dan Horák wrote:
> > > sorry for the late reply, but Fedora PPC team would like keep the
> > > support for Power7 for a while until we will able to replace the
> > > remaining older HW with Power8 one. We have already started the required
> > > actions, but as you can understand it will take some time. I personally
> > > expect we will be able to switch F-25 to pure Power8.
> >
> > Certainly.
>
> I would really like to understand why we have to support P7LE for another
> release.
>
> Especial as I know that Mike Wolf is working on getting the new P8 hardware
> for COPR.

I will wait for you and Dan to sort this out before taking any action
in glibc Fedora Rawhide.

My obvious hope would be that the current glibc changes stay as-is since
they are the most optimal runtimes for the latest hardware.

Cheers,
Carlos.

revisiting the architecture support on Power

[Dan Horák]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:31:28 -0500
"Carlos O'Donell"  wrote:
> On 01/29/2016 11:08 AM, Steve Munroe wrote:
> > > On 01/29/2016 09:55 AM, Dan Horák wrote:
> > > > sorry for the late reply, but Fedora PPC team would like keep the
> > > > support for Power7 for a while until we will able to replace the
> > > > remaining older HW with Power8 one. We have already started the
> > > > required actions, but as you can understand it will take some
> > > > time. I personally expect we will be able to switch F-25 to pure
> > > > Power8.
> > >
> > > Certainly.
> >
> > I would really like to understand why we have to support P7LE for
> > another release.
> >
> > Especial as I know that Mike Wolf is working on getting the new P8
> > hardware for COPR.
>
> I will wait for you and Dan to sort this out before taking any action
> in glibc Fedora Rawhide.
>
> My obvious hope would be that the current glibc changes stay as-is
> since they are the most optimal runtimes for the latest hardware.

seems we are making good progress with the hw, I didn't know the
solution is that close. Thanks to everyone who is making it happen.

Carlos, please do not make any changes. I need to talk to Peter
Robinson yet, but we should be switching the distro-wise flags before
the mass-rebuild.

Dan