Bug 463616

Summary:	[LTC 6.0 FEAT] 201187:Binutils: Decimal Floating Point support - PFPO
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:	cward, ejratl, jakub, jjarvis, mnowak, notting, ohudlick, snagar, syeghiay
Target Milestone:	alpha	Keywords:	FutureFeature, OtherQA
Target Release:	6.0
Hardware:	s390x
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 18:52:47 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	356741, 554559

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2008-09-24 03:31:00 UTC

=Comment: #0=================================================
Emily J. Ratliff <emilyr.com> - 2008-09-16 18:07 EDT
1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id:	[201187]
a. Name of Feature:	Binutils: Decimal Floating Point support - PFPO
b. Feature Description
Support pfpo instruction

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor:	zSeries
Architectures:
s390x

Arch Specificity: Purely Arch Specific Code
Affects Toolchain: Yes
Delivery Mechanism: Direct from community
Category:	Toolchain
Request Type:	Toolchain - Enhancement from IBM
d. Upstream Acceptance:	Accepted
Sponsor Priority	1
f. Severity: High
IBM Confidential:	no
Code Contribution:	IBM code
g. Component Version Target:	/kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils 2.18.50.0.7

3. Business Case
Make use of new hardware instructions and thus Improve Performance of Applications Applications
running operations on DFP type values.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat: 
John Jarvis
jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com, Boeblingen 49-7031-16-3978

Technical contact(s):
Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com

IBM Manager:
Thomas Schwarz, t.schwarz.com

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2008-10-02 20:30:04 UTC

RHEL 6 will include at least binutils-2.18.50.0.9, so this should not be a problem.

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 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2009-10-29 13:43:42 UTC

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

Comment 5 John Jarvis 2010-04-12 17:29:58 UTC

IBM is signed up to test and provide feedback

Comment 6 IBM Bug Proxy 2010-06-16 13:11:09 UTC

------- Comment From mgrf.com 2010-06-16 09:01 EDT-------
This feature is verified on R6 snapshots
Set feature to "verified". Thx

Comment 7 John Jarvis 2010-06-16 13:51:38 UTC

Setting Verified flag based on IBM feedback

Comment 8 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-07-02 18:52:47 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.