[Weekly] 29 SEPT - 3 OCT 2014

2014-10-05 Thread Michael Collison
== This week == * TCWG-515 - Neon intrinsic testing part 1 (5/10) - Developed fix for vclz DejaGnu failure - Tested on ARM hardware * Linaro bugzilla 602 - gcc 4.7.3 compiler internal error while building hsail components (1/10) - Unable to reproduce with either Linaro 4.8 or 4.9 * Lina

[ACTIVITY] 29 September - 3 October 2014

2014-10-05 Thread Venkataramanan Kumar
= Progress == * Core mark benchmark and report for PGO and PGO + LTO (2/10) Collected benchmark scores and report sent internally. Adding PGO benefits coremark. LTO seems to hurt. More runs and profiling next week. Tired few experiments with -funroll-all-loops and seems to benefit. * Misc [2/

[Activity] Aug 28 - Oct 5

2014-10-05 Thread Rob Savoye
== Progress == * Fixed test infrastructure bugs (TCWG 1378 - 8/10). - Installed Foundation Model on all Hetzner machines so aarch64 bare metal testing works. - Refactored all board support files to eliminate duplication to reduce maintainance headaches. Fixed ldflags so n