"Andreas K. Huettel" <
dilfridge@gentoo.org> writes:
Draft to be published ASAP, feedback welcome...
Title: Gentoo raises s390x baseline to z10
Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
Posted: xxxx-xx-xx
Revision: x
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Since more and more software for s390x assumes the presence of a more
recent processor, we will raise in 64bit s390x profiles the ISA baseline
for the catalyst stage builds and the published binary packages from
z900 to z10 (i.e., -march=z10).
* If you are running an installation and emerge locally from source,
this does not affect you.
* If you are running an installation and use our binary packages,
please make sure you have compatibility for z10 or switch to building
from source.
* The 64bit s390x stages will only work with machines compatible with
z10.
* This does not affect the 31bit s390 stages or packages.
The z10 Enterprise Class (2097 series) was introduced in February 2008 [1], which essentially means everyone except hardware archaeologists should be fine.
Note that z10 is still a very conservative setting; on modern machines
a newer ISA is strongly recommended.
LGTM. Just for completeness: motivation for this was partly
https://bugs.gentoo.org/936790 but we'd had other issues before with
e.g. nettle I think.
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