Bug 1664578 - [Lenovo 8.1 FEAT] Latest compiler tools chain update to support bfloat16
Summary: [Lenovo 8.1 FEAT] Latest compiler tools chain update to support bfloat16
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gcc
Version: 8.1
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: alpha
: 8.1
Assignee: Marek Polacek
QA Contact: qe-baseos-tools-bugs
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Blocks: 1613899 1615852
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Reported: 2019-01-09 08:31 UTC by Kelvin Shieh
Modified: 2023-07-18 14:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-03-13 16:18:12 UTC
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-35087 0 None None None 2023-07-18 14:22:09 UTC

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
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office: 919-890-8413 

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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.
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