[ACTIVITY] 7 - 12 July 2019

== Progress == * Investigate running benchmarks in containers [TCWG-1513] - Faffing about with our benchmarking scripts, not sure how to test changes without disrupting our infrastructure - Cooked up some viz scripts so I can easily look at the noise levels in benchmark results with/without co

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 12 July

Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] + QEMU 4.1 rc0 sent out of the door + investigated and sent fix for a regression with arm926 and arm1020 emulation: we accidentally turned off VFP double-precision support on these cores with the recent VFP refactoring + helped track

[ACTIVITY] week ending Jul. 14 2019

QEMU Tooling ([VIRT-252]) = QEMU plugin support ([VIRT-280]) - posted {PATCH for semihosting-tests} semihosting tests: add v7m tests Message-Id: <20190711135726.14191-1-alex.ben...@linaro.org> - semihosting re-factor now in v4 branch - cleaned up translator_l

[ACTIVITY] 8-12 July 2019

== Progress == * GCC: - FDPIC: received feedback on generic patches, will address after holidays - noinit attribute: iterated on generic attribute patch, not approved yet * GNU-583 (Fix Linux kernel built for Thumb-2 with GCC using LTO) - no progress this week * GCC upstream validation: - reporte