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Re: Releases 2.27 and 2.26.1
- From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:05:37 +0200
- Subject: Re: Releases 2.27 and 2.26.1
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> On 22 Jun 2016, at 16:49, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> 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 ?
Yes, that was the idea.
For this specific patch, Peter's patch was very focused and committed
quickly enough so blocking didn't occur.
Tristan.