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" <carlos(a)redhat.com&gt; 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