Thursday, 9 December 2021

Re: Bumping the baseline on ppc64el in jammy to POWER9

Christian Ehrhardt wrote on 09/12/2021:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 2:25 PM Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> This weekend, we will bump the baseline for the ppc64el architecture to POWER9.
>
> Hi Doko,
> to understand this right, the new will be -march=power9 then?
>
> If yes, that implies that any power8 test machine won't be usable for >=jammy.
> I just wanted to spell this out so that the implication is clear since
> I think while
> P8 machines are old they are in common use as test system AFAIK.

Indeed the machine we use to test the ppc64el server ISOs is a POWER8E.

Paride

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