[CentOS-devel] ISA SIG meeting minutes

Wed Oct 4 18:52:56 UTC 2023
Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>

This covers the last several meetings, for which I failed to send
minutes.  Sorries.

# zlib-ng

We want to replace zlib with zlib-ng (in compat mode) for CentOS 10
Stream.  In support of that, it would be interesting to rebuild CentOS 9
Stream with zlib-ng in the buildroot (again, in compat mode).

AI: Florian to talk to some folks and see what can be done to support
the zlib-ng transition effort.

# ISA SIG meeting at FOSDEM

I've confirmed internally that there will be some CentOS-related
activity in the days before FOSDEM.  There could even be a slot in the
official schedule for the ISA SIG if we wanted that.

# Blog post highlighting Intel work on GCC 13

Previously, in a separate venue, Intel shared their GCC 13 performance
work.  We wanted to encourage them to write a blog post about it, but it
turns out that it already exists:

  Build Innovation and Performance with GCC* 13
  <https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/build-innovation-and-performance-with-gcc13.html>

# Upcoming AArch64 work.

There might be some AArch64 work items in the ISA SIG space in the
future (validating a GCC bug fix, and experimenting with LSE atomics now
that the Raspberry Pi 5 with support for them has been announced).

Thanks,
Florian