[ACTIVITY] 18 - 22 August 2014

2014-08-31 Thread Kugan
== Progress == * Regression on alphaev68-linux-gnu due to uxt/sxt commit (7/10) - built cross alphaev68-linux-gnu and reproduces it with qemu. - Issue is due to PROMOTE_MODE definition and VRP truncating values. - discussed upstream and after a failed patch, it was suggested that the value rang

[ACTIVITY] 18 - 22 August 2014

2014-08-26 Thread Omair Javaid
== Progress == GDB Tracepoints/Fast Tracepoints support on arm [TCWG-480] [4/10] * FAST tracepoints try out on arm chromebook with trampoline code borrowed from kernel. AArch64 gdb record-replay bug fix [TCWG-503][TCWG-498] [2/10] * Debugging of issues Miscellaneous [4/10] * Reading on Pre

[ACTIVITY] 18 - 22 August 2014

2014-08-26 Thread Will Newton
= Progress == * Upstream work (2/10, CARD-341) - Bug investigations - Applied a couple of patches * Booting upstream kernel on Chromebook (2/10) - Kernel booting and running - No builtin wifi but dongle works ok - Breakpoint issue fixed but the test still fails for some other reason, created

[ACTIVITY] 18-22 August 2014

2014-08-24 Thread Kugan
== Progress == * TCWG-413 - Release benchmarking (2/10) - Analysed all the patches gone into the release for performance impact * TCWG-521 - Analysed Coremark and Spec2k for uxt/sxt optimizations TCWG-521(3/10) - Studied Coremark and have additional patches in development for missing cases. * bs

[ACTIVITY] 18-22 August 2014

2014-08-22 Thread Christophe Lyon
== Progress == * GCC trunk/4.9 cross-validation (5/10) - analysed reports sent during my holidays - troubleshooting problems with the compute farm (semaphores exhaustion, spurious parallel make failures, ...) * 2014.09 release - reviewed backport requests * LCU14 preparation (slides) (1/10)