On 12/6/2010 5:07 AM, Dave Martin wrote:
>> But,
>> to enable binary distribution, having to have N copies of a library (let
>> alone an application) for N different ARM core variants just doesn't
>> make sense to me.
>
> Just so, and as discussed before improvements to package managers
> could h
== Linaro GCC ==
* Worked on quad-word/big-endian fixes patch. Sent off a version
on Tuesday which worked OK, but which made some awkward changes to the
middle-end. Tried to re-think those parts, but without much luck: came
to the conclusion that spending more time trying to fix
element-ordering-
== Last Week ==
* Continued implementing support for ARM unwind tables in libunwind.
* Sent patches upstream to improve binutils's readelf, adding support
for all remaining unwind table instructions (i.e. VFP/NEON and WMMX).
When used on ARMv7a, provides meaningful output for previously
'unsuppor
== GDB ==
* Posted updated implementation of #661253 (Improve
backtrace by using ARM exception tables) to gdb-patches,
which includes several changes requested by reviewers
* Posted updated patch to further improve backtrace
(in the absence of debug info) to gdb-patches
* Commented on
Since it came up in the toolchain meeting this morning, some links to
issues people are having doing ARM scratchbox-style builds because of
generic linux-user issues:
http://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10529 # linux-user's mmap
implementation isn't very smart
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> On 12/3/2010 11:35 AM, Dave Martin wrote:
>
>> What you describe is one of two mechanisms currently in use--- the
>> other is for a single library to contain two implementations of
>> certain functions and to choose between them based on the h
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Thomas Petazzoni
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 16:28:27 +
> Dave Martin wrote:
>
>> This allows for more active power management of such functional
>> blocks: if the CPU is not fully loaded, you can turn them off -- the
>> kernel can spot when there is si
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-linaro-n-cross-compilers:
- wrote patches for creating backports PPA
- each component [1] generates versioned -source binary package
(eglibc-2.12.1-source etc)
- a-c-t-b [2] got "PPA" boolean variable in rules to have one source package
