Re: Cross testing applications under QEMU

2012-04-25 Thread Michael Hope
On 26 April 2012 13:58, Mans Rullgard wrote: > On 26 April 2012 02:39, Michael Hope wrote: >> We use QEMU to test programs built by the toolchain binary release for >> correctness. > > Is that really such a great idea?  Qemu is generally less strict than > actual hardware with things like alignme

Re: Cross testing applications under QEMU

2012-04-25 Thread Mans Rullgard
On 26 April 2012 02:39, Michael Hope wrote: > We use QEMU to test programs built by the toolchain binary release for > correctness. Is that really such a great idea? Qemu is generally less strict than actual hardware with things like alignment restrictions. This is fine for running software on

Cross testing applications under QEMU

2012-04-25 Thread Michael Hope
We use QEMU to test programs built by the toolchain binary release for correctness. I've written up the instructions for spinning up your own at: https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/QEMUCrossTest It's focused on simplicity - getting a running, SSH only Cortex-A9 up and going as soon as p

[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2012.04 released

2012-04-25 Thread Michael Hope
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2012.04 release of the Linaro Toolchain Binaries, a pre-built version of Linaro GCC and Linaro GDB that runs on generic Linux or Windows and targets the glibc Linaro Evaluation Build. Uses include: * Cross compiling ARM applications fr

[ACTIVITY] April 16 - April 20

2012-04-25 Thread Thiago Jung Bauermann
Hi, GDB for Android: * Wrote patch for bionic adding .note.ABI-tag to the crtbegin object files. Sent to Google engineers, They think it's going in the right direction and I will submit via gerrit. * Isolated Android-related changes in diff between AOSP's GDB 7.3.x and FSF GDB 7.3. There a

Re: [ACTIVITY] weekly status

2012-04-25 Thread Ken Werner
On 04/22/2012 11:58 PM, Michael Hope wrote: On 23 April 2012 00:54, Ken Werner wrote: Hi, * catching up with emails * rebased against current OE-core * OE is planning a release in april (following the yocto schedule) * noticed the libc of our binary toolchain is lacking i18n * caus