IBM SDK for Linux on Power 1.8 released
A new release of the IBM SDK for Linux on Power is now available. IBM SDK for Linux on Power 1.8 new features Built on Eclipse Mars. Leverages the latest
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A new release of the IBM SDK for Linux on Power is now available. IBM SDK for Linux on Power 1.8 new features Built on Eclipse Mars. Leverages the latest
Since ‘–no-tls-optimize’ is available for Power in ld, we need to provide __tls_get_addr () in static libc in order to avoid undefined references to this symbol when that flag is
An update release of the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is available for download. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0-5 bug fixes: Lock elision support was removed due some performance issues. GCC
A new major version of the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is released. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 9.0-0 new features 32-bit Go libraries are no longer supported. Lock elision support was
Patch accepted. Recent commit f449141 introduced a build failure caused by a compiler warning that is emitted by gcc-5.x. The compiler emits an warning when using sizeof() on array function parameters, and the powerpc internal syscall macros add such a check in sysdep.h. The solution for
GLIBC patch for Power architecture accepted. The Linux kernel commit b4b56f9 introduced a new HWCAP 2 bit (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC) to indicate that the kernel now aborts a memory transaction when a system
Two fixes for memchr for Power architecture accepted in GLIBC. The first is an obvious copy-paste error in the memchr implementation for powerpc32 (commit 854e005). The second is a fix for
Fix for Power architecture accepted in GLIBC. Some of the HWCAP bits did not have matching description strings and therefore were not shown when LD_SHOW_AUXV=1. Commit 94ec7e0 fixes that. by Carlos Eduardo
A new IBM Redbook named “Performance Optimization and Tuning Techniques for IBM Power Systems processors, including IBM POWER8” has been published by my team members. The book is a guide
An update release of the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is available for download. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 8.0-4 new features and bug fixes: Support for Lock Elision in GLIBC. GLIBC
I recently re-joined IBM to work as an Advisory Software Engineer in the Linux Technology Center. I am once again working on the toolchain for Power architecture and you will
A update release of the Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is available for download. Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux 6.0-1 new features and bug fixes: Time zone automatically set to system’s time