[ACTIVITY] April 21-25 2014

2014-04-28 Thread Venkataramanan Kumar
== Progress == PGO - AArch64 (TCWG-179) (4/10) * Completed SPEC2006 runs ( -O3 + PGO) in chroot + qemu-arm64-saucy with Linaro branch(4.9). * Perlbench train run failed, issue with qemu. * DealII train runs failed due to system libstdc++.so.6 not compatible with GCC 4.9. Changing the LD_LIBRAR

[ACTIVITY] Week 17

2014-04-28 Thread Yvan Roux
Short week, Easter Monday + child care (3/10) == Issues == * Toolchain64 disk still full every 2 days == Progress == * Linaro GCC 4.9 2014.04 release (3/10) - Branch merge with FSF 4.9.1 - Release tarball available on releases.linaro.org - Announcement will follow * Launchpad bugs: (2/10)

[ACTIVITY] 21 - 25 April 2014

2014-04-28 Thread Omair Javaid
== Progress == * GDB reverse debugging on aarch64 -- Complete decoding of aarch64 data processing immediate instructions. [TCWG-399] [1/10] -- Complete decoding of aarch64 data processing register instructions. [TCWG-402] [1/10] -- Completed decoding of aarch64 exception and system instructi

failed on building arm64 kernel

2014-04-28 Thread Zhi-zhou Zhang
hi, For building arm64 kernel, I tried all toolchain released from http://releases.linaro.org/latest/components/toolchain/binaries/ But it complained about some instructions bad: /home/work/linux/arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags.h: Assembler messages: /home/work/linux/arch/arm64/include/asm/irqflags

Re: failed on building arm64 kernel

2014-04-28 Thread Yvan Roux
Hi Zhi-zhou, having a %rax register here : Error: no such instruction: `mrs %rax,daif//arch_local_save_flags' makes me think that you're using an x86_64 compiler and not the AArch64 one. regards, Yvan On 26 April 2014 03:10, Zhi-zhou Zhang wrote: > hi, > For building arm64 kernel, I tried all

[ACTIVITY] Week 17

2014-04-28 Thread Bernie Ogden
== Progress== TCWG-435 needless busy-wait in lowlevellock.c (3/10) * Patches ready, testing a bit slow & fiddly TCWG-156 cortex-strings memset (3/10) * Worried about noisy benchmarks * Learned to use Lava * Found some helpful internal docs * Managed to tweak the code slightly == Misc == Meetin