------- Comment From [email protected] 2016-01-13 11:18 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #17)
> This bug is currently not actionable.  No information about which packages
> require updates to support POWER9, or upstream revisions/commits where this
> support is available, or when these will be released.
>
> Marking incomplete for now.

The toolchain is made up of the important binutils, GCC and GLIBC
packages.  Secondarily, you can add GDB to the list, but it's POWER9
disassembler support is inherited from binutils.

>From my recollection, Ububtu 16.04 will use binutils 2.26, GCC 5.x and GLIBC 
>2.23 versions.
Binutils 2.26 contains full POWER9 support, so no patches are required for 
that.  GLIBC 2.23 currently has all of the POWER9 support we'll be able to 
deliver in time for 16.04, so no patches are required for that either.  The 
only package that requires backports if GCC and those are already available in 
out IBM GCC 5 branch which Canonical is already pulling from.  We are only 
missing which patches from that branch has Canonical pulled and which haven't.  
Maybe they have pulled them all?

Given the above, I don't think marking this feature as incomplete is
appropriate.

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