Bug 1664578

Summary: [Lenovo 8.1 FEAT] Latest compiler tools chain update to support bfloat16
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Kelvin Shieh <kshieh>
Component: gccAssignee: Marek Polacek <mpolacek>
gcc sub component: system-version QA Contact: qe-baseos-tools-bugs
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX Docs Contact:
Severity: high    
Priority: unspecified CC: ahajkova, fweimer, jakub, kshieh, law, mpetlan, ohudlick, tyu1
Version: 8.1Keywords: FutureFeature, Triaged
Target Milestone: alpha   
Target Release: 8.1   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Kelvin Shieh 2019-01-09 08:31:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
BFloat16 support for intel next generation cpu CooperLake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format)


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Comment 1 Kelvin Shieh 2019-01-09 08:34:54 UTC 
4. Primary contact at Red Hat, email, phone (chat)
Monte Knutson
mknutson 
office: 919-890-8413 

5. Primary contact at Partner, email, phone (chat)
TYU1
+8615110208206
Comment 3 Jeff Law 2020-03-13 16:18:12 UTC 
We are not going to be providing bfloat16 support in the RHEL 8 system compiler.

This capability is expected to be available in DTS 10 which is being tracked by BZ 1656139.