Branch is open

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Hope
Hi there. The 2011.08 release has been spun and is testing up well. The 4.5 and 4.6 branches are now open so feel free to commit any approved patches. -- Michael ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.or

Is the Linaro toolchain useful on x86/x86_64?

2011-08-17 Thread Bernhard Rosenkranzer
Hi, is the Linaro toolchain (esp. gcc) useful on x86/x86_64, or is an attempt to use the Linaro toolchain with such a target just asking for trouble? (No, I'm not secretly an Intel spy ;) Just trying to have some fun with my desktop machine ;) ) ttyl bero _

Re: Is the Linaro toolchain useful on x86/x86_64?

2011-08-17 Thread David Gilbert
On 17 August 2011 12:09, Bernhard Rosenkranzer wrote: > Hi, > is the Linaro toolchain (esp. gcc) useful on x86/x86_64, or is an > attempt to use the Linaro toolchain with such a target just asking for > trouble? > (No, I'm not secretly an Intel spy ;) Just trying to have some fun > with my desktop

Re: Is the Linaro toolchain useful on x86/x86_64?

2011-08-17 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 04:09:21AM -0700, Bernhard Rosenkranzer wrote: > is the Linaro toolchain (esp. gcc) useful on x86/x86_64, or is an > attempt to use the Linaro toolchain with such a target just asking for > trouble? Isn't this exactly what Ubuntu do for all their releases (from when we star

Re: Is the Linaro toolchain useful on x86/x86_64?

2011-08-17 Thread Michael K. Edwards
We use the Linaro x86 toolchain to cross-compile full system images for our embedded target, which work great. I apply a subset of the Ubuntu patchset to Linaro gcc and gdb as well as upstream eglibc and binutils. (I omit the multilib patches and some other things that didn't seem necessary for t

Re: Branch is open

2011-08-17 Thread Zach Pfeffer
FYI On 17 August 2011 02:09, Michael Hope wrote: > Hi there.  The 2011.08 release has been spun and is testing up well. > The 4.5 and 4.6 branches are now open so feel free to commit any > approved patches. > > -- Michael > > ___ > linaro-toolchain mail

Re: Is the Linaro toolchain useful on x86/x86_64?

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Hope
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Bernhard Rosenkranzer wrote: > Hi, > is the Linaro toolchain (esp. gcc) useful on x86/x86_64, or is an > attempt to use the Linaro toolchain with such a target just asking for > trouble? > (No, I'm not secretly an Intel spy ;) Just trying to have some fun > with m

Re: Basic libav profiling

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Hope
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Richard Sandiford wrote: > Michael Hope writes: >> I put a build harness around libav and gathered some profiling data.  See: >>  bzr branch lp:~linaro-toolchain-dev/+junk/libav-suite >> >> It includes a Makefile that builds a C only, h.264 only decoder and >> tw

Re: Basic libav profiling

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Hope
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Michael Hope wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Richard Sandiford > wrote: >> Michael Hope writes: >>> I put a build harness around libav and gathered some profiling data.  See: >>>  bzr branch lp:~linaro-toolchain-dev/+junk/libav-suite >>> >>> It includ

Improving libgmp [was: Re: Potential tools team work]

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Hope
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > I was just browsing libgmp this afternoon and noticed that it really > could do with an overhaul to support recent ARM chips. > > The ARM code seems to have been written for StrongARM; which is now > almost obsolete (for example, it loads

Linaro GCC 4.6 and 4.5 2011.08 released

2011-08-17 Thread Michael Hope
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2011.08 release of both Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5. Linaro GCC 4.6 2011.08 is the sixth release in the 4.6 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.6.1+svn177703, it focuses on fixing bugs found during the Android integration and in S

Linaro QEMU 2011.08 released

2011-08-17 Thread Peter Maydell
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro QEMU 2011.08. Linaro QEMU 2011.08 is the latest monthly release of qemu-linaro. Based off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. This month's release is primarily minor

Re: Basic libav profiling

2011-08-17 Thread Ira Rosen
On 18 August 2011 02:43, Michael Hope wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Michael Hope > wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Richard Sandiford >> wrote: >>> Michael Hope writes: I put a build harness around libav and gathered some profiling data.  See:  bzr branch lp:~