Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0-3 released
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0 is available. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0-3 new features GCC provides: Fix for PowerPC ISA 2.07 is inefficient at doint (float)(int)x.
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Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0-6 released
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0 is available. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0-6 new features Binutils provides: Fix for crash on fuzzed samples. Fix powerpc gas abort
Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0-2 released
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0 is available. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0-2 new features Support for Debian 8. The GNU C Library provides a fix for
Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.0-8 released
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.0 is available. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.0-8 new features The GNU C Library provides: Fix memory handling in strxfrm_l. Fix for
Swift language ported to Linux on Power
Anton Blanchard announced in a recent blog post his initial port of Swift to Linux on Power. As you may know, Apple open sourced its new programming language a while
GLIBC patch accepted: HWCAP2 bits for POWER9
Following commit b1f19b8, commit d2de9ef adds the HWCAP2 bits required for POWER9 enablement: ISA 3.0 and VSX IEEE Binary Float 128-bit. It also adds the respective capability strings to dl-procinfo. by Carlos
Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.1-4 released
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.1 is available. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 7.1-4 new features The GNU C Library provides: Fixes for the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-8121 and
GLIBC patch accepted: Export __parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform to libc.a
Commit 67385a0 added a new feature for Power, where we store HWCAP and platform bits in the TCB. In the dynamic linking case, we use the versioned symbol ‘__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform‘ to
GLIBC patch accepted: Added POWER9 platform support
Following the release of our Power ISA 3.0, I added the platform information for the next generation POWER9 processor to glibc. This includes platform support in dl-procinfo and new ‘power9‘
New Power Instruction Set Architecture 3.0 available
We have just published the new POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) version 3.0. This new ISA supports the next generation POWER processors and continues the evolution over the previous ISA
GLIBC patch accepted: Add HWCAP bits to the TCB on Power
In order to get faster access to the HWCAP/HWCAP2 bits and platform number without the overhead of reading from the auxiliary vector, we now reserve space for them in the Thread Control Block (TCB). This is a TLS ABI change for GLIBC 2.23 added by commit 67385a0. New __builtin_cpu_is() / __builtin_cpu_supports() functions in GCC will be available (probably) in the next release, providing similar functionality to Intel
Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0-1 released
A new update for the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0 is available. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0-1 new features Expat provides a fix for CVE-2015-1283. Support for Fedora 22 ppc64le. GCC