[ACTIVITY] Week 15

2014-04-14 Thread Yvan Roux
1 day off (Child care) == Issues == * Toolchain64 disk full == Progress == * Released Linaro GCC 4.7 and 4.8 2014.04 (5/10) * Launchpad bugs: (1/10) o LP #1169164 : including signal.h exposes various PSR_MODE #defines - rebased and rework patch * Misc: o Cbuildv1 baby-sitting (1/10) o

[ACTIVITY] Week 15

2014-04-14 Thread Bernie Ogden
== Progress == TCWG-156 cortex-strings memset (5/10) * Fixed a couple of bugs in the no-VFP case * Ran benchmarks, discarded broken benchmarks, ran more benchmarks * Explored benchmarking scripts * Took a hard look at the memset tests * Experimented with ARM-internal cortex-strings benchmark (not

[ACTIVITY] 7 - 11 April 2014

2014-04-14 Thread Omair Javaid
== Progress == * GDB reverse debugging on aarch64 [6/10] [TCWG-398] -- Setup development tree and debug environment. -- Verified generic reverse debugging implementation aarch64. -- Implemented main function stubs to catch instruction for decoding and recording. * Work on gdb testing utilit

[Activity] 7 - 11 Apr 2014

2014-04-14 Thread Venkataramanan Kumar
PGO - AArch64 (TCWG-179) (4/10) * Installed QEMU user static for aarch64 and use them from chroot environment in ubuntiu 13.10 * Tried installing chroot + qemu arm64-saucy in another ubuntu 12.04 machine. Issue with binfmts. looks to be corrupted. * Bootstrap GCC with PGO with --enable-languages=

[ACTIVITY] March 31-6

2014-04-14 Thread Maxim Kuvyrkov
== Week of March 31st == - Investigated and scripted how to reproducibly run benchmarks (TCWG-238, 7/10) -- Stop all services on target board -- Use local disk -- Stop networking -- Bind benchmark to a specific CPU. Bind all other processes to a different CPU. -- Disable frequency scal

[ACTIVITY] April 7-13

2014-04-14 Thread Maxim Kuvyrkov
== Week of April 7th == - Made a how-to wiki page/script on how to use QEMU and schroot for system emulation (TCWG-179, 2/10). -- This allows you to get armhf or armel or aarch64 Ubuntu or Debian system within minutes, e.g., for PGO or LTO bootstraps of GCC. -- https://collaborate.linaro.or