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* [gentoo-dev] news item draft: Gentoo raises s390x baseline to z10
@ 2025-04-13 18:18 Andreas K. Huettel
  2025-04-13 20:27 ` [gentoo-dev] " Doug Freed
  2025-04-15 19:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Sam James
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From: Andreas K. Huettel @ 2025-04-13 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev, pr, s390, releng

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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.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Z

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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