Bug 463388

Summary:	[LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201154:LoP Upgrade binutils to 2.18 or higher
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Michal Nowak <mnowak>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.0	CC:	ejratl, jakub, mnowak, notting, ohudlick, snagar, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	alpha	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	6.0
Hardware:	ppc64
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	binutils-2.19.51.0.14-34.el6	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Last Closed:	2010-07-02 18:52:42 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	356741, 554559

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2008-09-23 04:00:56 UTC

=Comment: #0=================================================
Emily J. Ratliff <emilyr.com> - 2008-09-17 17:19 EDT
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201154]
a. Name of Feature:	LoP Upgrade to GCC-4.3 and related packages - binutils
b. Feature Description
GCC-4.3 contains Decimal Floating Point support plus many additional
optimizations useful to POWER. Please update binutils along with the request to
update gcc to the latest level.

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	PPC
Architectures:
ppc64

Arch Specificity: Both
Affects Toolchain: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:	Toolchain
Request Type:	Package - Update Version
d. Upstream Acceptance:	Accepted
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	no
g. Component Version Target:	GCC-4.3, binutils-2.18, GLIBC-2.7+
Performance Assistance:	yes

3. Business Case
Support multiple POWER6/7 features while minimizing backports

Benefits
Performance improvements for POWER6/7 customers, direct support for POWER6/7
hardware features.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Michael Hohnbaum, hbaum.com, 503-578-5486

Technical contact(s):
Steve Munroe, sjmunroe.com

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2008-10-02 17:38:04 UTC

The feature requested has already been accepted into the upstream code base
planned for the next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

When the next milestone release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is available,
please verify that the feature requested is present and functioning as
desired.

Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-03-02 20:21:59 UTC

RHEL6 will be based on Fedora11 and that will based on binutils 2.19.1, so we are all set here.

Comment 3 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2009-10-29 13:43:40 UTC

Fixed in 'binutils-2.19.51.0.14-34.el6', included in compose 'RHEL6.0-20091028.0'.
Moving to ON_QA.

Comment 4 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-11-16 18:40:50 UTC

------- Comment From halves.ibm.com 2009-11-16 13:33 EDT-------
binutils-2.19.51.0.14-34.el6.ppc64 found on RHEL6-20091110.

Regards,

Higor

Comment 6 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-05-03 16:53:40 UTC

------- Comment From bergner.com 2010-05-03 12:48 EDT-------
Binutils verified to be v2.20 on RHEL6 Beta 1.  Closing.

Comment 7 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-07-02 18:52:42 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beta 2 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.