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Re: Releases 2.27 and 2.26.1
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:30:32 +0930
- Subject: Re: Releases 2.27 and 2.26.1
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:49:09AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 22 Jun 2016 09:26, Peter Bergner wrote:
> > On 6/10/16 10:02 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > > I'd like to create the 2.27 branch soon, and also to build the 2.26.1 release.
> > > If you have any pending patch you'd like to have in one of these releases, please speak quickly!
> >
> > Our hardware people just contacted me this morning about a few new
> > instructions being added to ISA 3.0 (ie, POWER9). I'd like to add
> > those to trunk to make 2.27. I can have them committed today if
> > that's alright with you.
>
> wasn't the idea of doing two releases a year specifically to avoid
> this last minute kind of rush ? is this hardware going to be coming
> out in the next 6 months such that everyone will have access to it ?
> -mike
Let's see the patch before you reject it out of hand.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM