Upgrading the minimum required s390x CPU to z10?

2016-05-31 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi all, The Debian s390x port currently defaults to the z900 instruction set. It appears that an increasing but small number of packages use z10 assembly code, and need to be patched to be built on Debian. I therefore wonder if it is time to switch the default ISA to z10 (which is the maximum

Re: Upgrading the minimum required s390x CPU to z10?

2016-05-31 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 05:51:56AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 07:23:00PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Tue, May 31, 2016, at 18:25, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > > > > That's indeed the right way to do it (and to fix the issue), but the > > > point is that developers

Re: Upgrading the minimum required s390x CPU to z10?

2016-05-31 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 07:23:00PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2016, at 18:25, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > > That's indeed the right way to do it (and to fix the issue), but the > > point is that developers using GCC defaulting to z10 or higher don't > > realize they can't use

Bug#825931: s390-netdevice virtio interface choice misleading

2016-05-31 Thread Viktor Mihajlovski
Package: s390-netdevice Version: 0.0.44 Severity: normal Tags: d-i patch X-Debbugs-CC: debian-s390@lists.debian.org, brueck...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Dear Maintainer, if an installation is attempted on a system with a PCI network interface only, it is necessary to select virtio as network interface