[ACTIVITY] 15th - 19th August
* Started running EEMBC on Panda. Got three errors in the automotive test at this point. * Started documenting necessary steps for my start-up task: https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain/Benchmarks/First%20time%20notes * Upgraded the Snowball board to the latest version (V3). Created a corresponding test image for Snowball (Linaro 11.06). There is a problem with the serial console freezing after a couple of minutes without any error, not sure if it is a complete crash or just the serial output. The people I have talked to so far has not experienced the same problem. I will set up the networking for the board and see where ssh gets me. Best Regards Åsa ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
[ACTIVITY] Weekly status
== This week == * Looked at LP #823711. Turned out to be a problem with symbol visibility in libgcc.a. Tested a fix that was accepted and applied upstream. Will backport to upstream release branches, so we should be able to pull the fix in that way. * Backported the fix for BZ PR49987 to Linaro 4.6 and 4.5. * Looked at the regrename bug that Ramana reported on gcc@. * Looked at why libav wasn't being vectorised. Discussed with Ira. I think we now have a Plan. * Submitted address writeback scheduling patches upstream. * Submitted and applied some tweaks to the rtx cost interface upstream. * Spent a while trying to figure out what the targetm.rtx_costs API actually is, and how rtx_cost should use it to evaluate the cost of a SET. Discussed on gcc@. * Found that ARM was giving SETs a base cost of 4 instructions. Benchmarked the cost of "fixing" this. It generally seemed positive. * Wrote a couple of other rtx cost patches. == Next week == * Backport fix for #823711 to upstream branches. * Hopefully finish off rtx costs stuff. * Unless there's a clear outcome from the gcc@ discussion, I think I'll abandon my idea of using insn_rtx_cost in the new auto inc/dec patch, and simply sum the cost of every SET. Should be a small change. Richard ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
[Activity] Weekly status - w/e 19th August 2011
==GCC== ===Progress=== * Continue to look at the test failure with mvectorize-with-neon-quad. Should be able to commit the backend workaround in on Monday . * Having some problems getting my panda board working reliably. I'm not sure if its the temperature or what but when it gets hot in the office as it was on Tuesday keeping it working reliably is hard. The board locks up and then crashes quite often. * Looked at VFP moves again for some more time. * Committed tbh range change. * Committed fixes for PR50022 === Plans === * Finish off VFP moves patch. * Look at BRANCH_COST results. * Breakdown the T2 performance blueprints into smaller blueprints. * Backport tbh range changes to Linaro 4.6 * Test the intrinsics patch once with some more intrinsics tests and then merge it in to Linaro gcc 4.6 Meetings: * 1-1s * TCWG calls Absences. * 29th Aug - Sept. 2 - Holiday booked and approved. * 31st Oct - 4th Nov - Linaro Summit Orlando - Travel booked - hotel to be booked. ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
[ACTIVITY] weekly status
Hi, * continued to work on getting libunwind support for remote unwinding upstream * reworked some of the code to address concerns from the ml * now upstream! * made smaller fixes to have another libunwind testcase passing * interfaced with the Linaro Android group to solve an issue where a compile was failing when using -O3 * turned out that the Linaro GCC vectorizes a loop by generating some neon instructions * unfortunately the gas of the 2.20.1 binutils (that is currently used by the Linaro Android toolchain) doesn't properly understand the alignment restrictions of the generated asm code and throws an error * this has be fixed upstream and using a gas from recent binutils fixes the issue * Bernhard is already working on getting newer binutils in their Androuid toolchain build system * continued the work to get libunwind building on Linaro Android * wrote an Android.mk and got an initial libunwind.so built (ugly hacks involved) * next step is modify the debuggerd to make use of libunwind.so Note: Next week I'll be on vacation. Regards Ken ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
[ACTIVITY] Aug 15 - Aug 19
== GDB == * Created and published Linaro GDB 7.3 2011-08 release. * Analyzed --with-sysroot=remote: testsuite failures, and opened bug LP #829595. * Reviewed Yao's latest Thumb-2 displaced stepping patch. == Schedule == * I'll be on vacation 08/23 through 08/31. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
[ACTIVITY] 2011-08-19
== String routines == * Working through updating my eglibc patch for memchr, I think I'm nearly there - took way too long to persuade an eglibc make check to work cross (can't get native build happy). == QEMU == * Sent a new version of my QEMU patch for the atomic helpers to Peter. * Tested the Android beagle image on a real beagle - it fails in pretty much the same way as the QEMU run. == Other == * Had a brief look at bug 825711 - scribus ftbfs on ARM - this is QT being built to define qreal as float on ARM when it's double on most other things, scribus having a qreal variable and something it's defined as a double and then passing it to a template that requires two arguments of the same type; not really sure which one is to blame here! I'm on holiday next week. Dave ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
