commit:     f92ae7ff710b5e5d97d5de74300417062188b051
Author:     Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Mon Apr 14 16:54:53 2025 +0000
Commit:     Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Mon Apr 14 16:54:53 2025 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=f92ae7ff

Add newsitem about s390x baseline z10

See-also: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/27323
Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge <AT> gentoo.org>

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+Title: Gentoo raises s390x baseline to z10
+Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <[email protected]>
+Posted: 2025-04-14
+Revision: 1
+News-Item-Format: 2.0
+Display-If-Profile: default/linux/s390/17.0/s390x
+Display-If-Profile: default/linux/s390/17.0/s390x/systemd/merged-usr
+Display-If-Profile: default/linux/s390/23.0/split-usr/s390x
+Display-If-Profile: default/linux/s390/23.0/s390x
+Display-If-Profile: default/linux/s390/23.0/s390x/systemd
+
+Since more and more software for s390x assumes the presence of a more recent
+processor, we will raise the ISA baseline in 64bit s390x profiles for the
+catalyst stage builds and the published binary packages from z900 to z10 (i.e.,
+-march=z10).
+
+* If you are running an installation and emerge locally from source, this does
+  not affect you.
+
+* If you are running an installation and use our binary packages, please make
+  sure you have compatibility for z10 or switch to building from source.
+
+* The 64bit s390x stages will only work with machines compatible with z10.
+
+* This does not affect the 31bit s390 stages or packages.
+
+The z10 Enterprise Class (2097 series) was introduced in February 2008 [1],
+which essentially means everyone except hardware archaeologists should be fine.
+
+Note that z10 is still a very conservative setting; on modern machines a newer
+ISA is strongly recommended.
+
+[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Z

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