>>> On 8/25/2011 at 08:52 AM, Philipp Kern <[email protected]> wrote: 
> I guess I understood [0] differently than I should then*  :)
> 
> Kind regards
> Philipp Kern
> 
> [0] 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_z10#New_Architecture_Level_Set_.28ALS
> .29

That ALS statement was referring to z/VM, not Linux.  From the Linux 
perspective, the current ALS supports all of the z/Architecture machines.  
Support policies differ, which is why you'll see statements like SLES11 and 
RHEL6 are only supported on z9 or later hardware.  GCC is updated to support 
any new instructions that come with each hardware generation, but that doesn't 
mean the distribution itself gets built with that generation as the -march 
value.


Mark Post

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