[ACTIVITY] Jan 31 - Feb 04

2011-02-04 Thread Ulrich Weigand
== GDB == * Prepared Linaro GDB 7.2-2011-02.0 release * Committed two patches to implement LP #661253 (Improve backtrace by using ARM exception tables) to mainline and Linaro GDB 7.2 * Provided two follow-on fixes to the patch for LP #616000 (Handle -fstack-protector prologue code); b

[ACTIVITY] Week 2011-2-04

2011-02-04 Thread Mounir Bsaibes
=== Toolchain === * Organized the Weekly Release Meeting Status pages https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Status * Organized the collection of weekly Activity https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelConsolidation/ActivityReports * Started to track Linaro events planned and approv

[ACTIVITY] 2011-02-04

2011-02-04 Thread David Gilbert
== String routines == * After some discussions about IT semantics managed to shave a couple of instructions out of a couple of routines * Got around to trying a suggestion that was made some months ago, that LDM is faster than LDRD on A9's; and indeed it does seem to be in some cases; those ca

[ACTIVITY] report week 05

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Maydell
RAG: Red: Amber: DATE/QEMU conference still hasn't confirmed I have a place... Green: qemu-linaro RC2 prerelease uploaded Current Milestones: | Planned| Estimate | Actual | first qemu-linaro release| 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 || Historical Mile

[ACTIVITY] weekly status

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Werner
Hi, * I continued to setup the pandaboad but ran into #708883 - tested vaious various hwpacks and headless images - used different power supplies and several SD cards - built various test kernels from the linux-linaro-natty.git * looked into the crash utility * https://wiki.linaro.org/

Request for new relocation: R_ARM_IRELATIVE

2011-02-04 Thread Richard Sandiford
Hi, I'm working in the Linaro toolchain team on adding ARM support for GNU indirect functions (STT_GNU_IFUNCs). The indirect function feature requires a new relocation type, which is typically called R_FOO_IRELATIVE. I'd therefore like to propose a new R_ARM_IRELATIVE relocation type for the ARM

Re: qemu 2011.02-rc2 test results

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Maydell
On 4 February 2011 01:12, Michael Hope wrote: > I've had a go with running the QEMU release candidate.  Short story is > that it boots to a prompt against the 11.05 alpha2 release so I'm > happy. Quick remark: "# Has no serial console or keyboard " ...this is because you haven't told qemu "-seri

Re: gcc-linaro-4.5+bzr99469 build failure

2011-02-04 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On 04/02/11 01:18, Michael Hope wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > I can't reproduce this failure. > > I did the build using am i686-natty chroot, but with an amd64 bit kernel, if > that makes a difference. > > I did it with default configure options, so I'm going

Re: qemu 2011.02-rc2 test results

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Werner
On Friday, February 04, 2011 2:12:38 am Michael Hope wrote: > I've had a go with running the QEMU release candidate. Short story is > that it boots to a prompt against the 11.05 alpha2 release so I'm > happy. > > It was a messy road so I've written up my train of though here: > https://wiki.lina