Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Andreas Krebbel
On 05/22/2015 10:54 AM, Richard Biener wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > >> On 05/22/2015 10:22 AM, Richard Biener wrote: >>> On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: >>> Hi, in order to get the IBM z13 support into present distros the Linux distributor

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:43:14PM +, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2015, Richard Biener wrote: > > > All arguments still apply apart from the fact that we'll have plenty > > of releases from the GCC 5 branch (and the alternatives patch is > > safe there). > > > > So for GCC 5 I'm will

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Joseph Myers
On Fri, 22 May 2015, Richard Biener wrote: > All arguments still apply apart from the fact that we'll have plenty > of releases from the GCC 5 branch (and the alternatives patch is > safe there). > > So for GCC 5 I'm willing to leave it to the architecture maintainers, > but please wait for other

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Richard Biener
On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > On 05/22/2015 10:22 AM, Richard Biener wrote: > > On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> in order to get the IBM z13 support into present distros the Linux > >> distributors asked me to get this > >> stuff upstream into th

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Andreas Krebbel
On 05/22/2015 10:22 AM, Richard Biener wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> in order to get the IBM z13 support into present distros the Linux >> distributors asked me to get this >> stuff upstream into the older GCC branches first. This would ease the whole >> bac

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:22:07AM +0200, Richard Biener wrote: > I'm somewhat missing the point of backporting z13 support. ppc64le > enablement was a different story (IBM basically saying ppc64-linux > is dead), but surely all z13 machines can run non-z13 code just fine. > > s390x-linux-gnu is

Re: IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Richard Biener
On Fri, 22 May 2015, Andreas Krebbel wrote: > Hi, > > in order to get the IBM z13 support into present distros the Linux > distributors asked me to get this > stuff upstream into the older GCC branches first. This would ease the whole > backporting efforts, > interactions with other patches and

IBM z13 support for older GCCs

2015-05-22 Thread Andreas Krebbel
Hi, in order to get the IBM z13 support into present distros the Linux distributors asked me to get this stuff upstream into the older GCC branches first. This would ease the whole backporting efforts, interactions with other patches and would make sure that everybody uses the same code level.