The Impact section is inadequate for sponsoring or as an SRU.
It's not clear how a user is impacted by this change, or rather the lack
of it.
> With IBM having announced the new IBM z17, Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04
should be enabled to run properly on the latest s390x hardware.
How are users limited from running Ubuntu on that hardware? I don't see
how a linker and assembler not knowing the latest and greatest
instructions is impacting a users ability to run an Ubuntu release on
it.
If users are unable to run the Ubuntu release due to missing support in
the linker and assembler, then surely a rebuild of Ubuntu would be
needed that actually made use of those.
As such this seems to enable *future* uploads of packages to make use of
new instructions in those architectures, and does not actually perform
any hardware enablement.
Also in particular, the refactoring commits introduce significant
regression potential for older s390x variants of producing broken
binaries.
Given this, I do not think this should be classified as a hardware
enablement SRU.
As such, I will not be sponsoring this, and I'd advise the SRU team to
reject it.
** Changed in: binutils (Ubuntu Plucky)
Status: In Progress => Incomplete
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