[ACTIVITY] week ending Aug. 5 2018

SVE Support ([VIRT-198]) - traced the svetest failure from Naoki @ Naist to SVE ABI issue with dynamic linker - rth has posted [a fix for glibc] and a bug raised for armclang w.r.t. noplt - looking into Nils's SVE enabled Test_simd from Grid failure -

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 3 Aug

[TCWG-1450] Support for Tag_ABI_VFP_args in LLD Needed by FreeBSD in order to switch to LLD for Arm. [TCWG-1451] Support for v5 and v6 Arm in LLD Tidied up and submitted patches for v5/v6 (branch encoding and compatible thunks), in upstream review. [TCWG] - Started doing some Jira gardening in pr

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 3 Aug

Progres:s * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] + some time spent getting testing on BSD VMs working again (the box I use for this was replaced with new hardware, which seemed like a good time to shift to the support for this we have in upstream QEMU) + pre-Connect scrub of Lina