[ACTIVITY] week ending Jul. 28 2019

2019-07-26 Thread Alex Bennée
QEMU Tooling ([VIRT-252]) = GSoC Mentoring ([VIRT-348]) - reviewed v4 of the patch series - planning and stretch goals for the next week - GSoC 2nd assessment paperwork Upstream Work ([VIRT-109]) == - posted {PULL v4 00/23 for 4.1-rc2} te

[ACTIVITY] week ending 26th July 2019

2019-07-26 Thread Peter Smith
[ACTIVITY] On buildbot and Linux kernel CI duty - One obscure alias analysis bug that only failed on GCC on AArch64 that suddenly started failing a unit test. Tracked down to an unitialised variable when API called directly via unit-test. Test has been reverted, but I've put enough information in a

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 26 Jul

2019-07-26 Thread Peter Maydell
Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] + QEMU 4.1 rc2 tagged + investigated and sent patches for a problem reported by Mark Rutland where we still were sometimes putting the initrd on top of the kernel in our built-in bootloader code + spent a couple of days tracking down

[ACTIVITY] 22 - 26 July 2019

2019-07-26 Thread Diana Picus
== Progress == * LLVM 8.0.1 final binaries uploaded * Use ninja in release job [LLVM-536] - Patches ready, but waiting for 9.0.0-rc1 so I can test (was supposed to come out this week but got postponed to Monday) * Investigate running benchmarks in containers [TCWG-1513] - Still having troubl