[ACTIVITY] 19 - 23 August 2013

2013-08-26 Thread Venkataramanan Kumar
== Progress == 3 day week 21 August unwell and 23-August leave. * Libssp support for AArch64 TCWG 23: Sent RFC patch for review. http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2013-08/msg00044.html workign on cross testing eglibc from host. * Backport 201406 to linaro branch. Waiting for review. ==

Re: [ACTIVITY] 19 - 23 August 2013

2013-08-26 Thread Yvan Roux
Kugan, > * Back-porting > - Back ported all the assigned one > - There are some make check failures for thread related test cases with > qemu; investigating it This are known qemu threading issues, don't spend time on it ;) ___ linaro-toolchai

Re: [ACTIVITY] 19 - 23 August 2013

2013-08-26 Thread Kugan
On 26/08/13 17:21, Yvan Roux wrote: Kugan, * Back-porting - Back ported all the assigned one - There are some make check failures for thread related test cases with qemu; investigating it This are known qemu threading issues, don't spend time on it ;) Thanks Yvan. I had a suspici

[ACTIVITY] Aug 18-23

2013-08-26 Thread Rob Savoye
== Progress == * Got Cbuildv2 building native on Odroid and Wandboard via Jenkins using the LAVA build farm. * Improved support for native builds in Cbuildv2. * Added building binary tarballs for releases. * Looked at two patches for multilib support. * Reviewed a bunch of wiki

Any plans for "ifunc-ing" more glibc routines?

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
Hi all, There has been interest from LEG members to ensure that optimal library routines are used on their platforms. My understanding is that the "correct" way of doing this these days is to use ifuncs to select the best implementation for a given system. I see that glibc 2.18 contains an ifunc

Re: Any plans for "ifunc-ing" more glibc routines?

2013-08-26 Thread Pinski, Andrew
I think a better way of doing some of these functions is using ifunc with a vdso. So the glibc does not have to be updated; only the kernel. Thanks, Andrew Sent from my iPad On Aug 26, 2013, at 8:17 PM, "Michael Hudson-Doyle" wrote: > Hi all, > > There has been interest from LEG members to

backport of memcpy ifunc work to 2.17

2013-08-26 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
Hi, Apologies in advance for any chinese whispers effects that happen, but colleagues at Canonical are attempting to backport this change: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=ae65139d140ac85808c0666c363 to the (e)glibc in current versions of Ubuntu, 2.17, but are encountering