Hi there. The next two weeks is where we take the technical topics
from the TSC and the discussions had during the summit and turn them
into the concrete engineering blueprints for this cycle. I've created
a page at:
https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/1111Blueprints
listing all of the TRs. Could you please have a look through these,
find any with your name on them, and fill in the wiki page. I've put
more notes on the page itself. Some of the topics may warrant
specifications.
Let me know if you have questions on what the topics actually mean.
-- Michael
* Profiling SPEC 2k6 still; about 3/4 of the latrace files are
generated but it's taking some hand holding with some of them
(e.g. finding one that makes millions of calls to a library function
that we're not interested in but generates a huge log, and hence
needs it excluding).
* Working through the ones that I have with analysis scripts and
writing the interesting things up.
* Submitted ARM test suite fix for latrace (unsigned characterism)
* Verified Richard's binutils fix in natty-proposed fixed the vtk FTBFS
* Blueprint for 64bit sync primitives.
Dave
Hi,
* started to measure the overhead of -funwind-tables
* libunwind text size increase < 5%
* firefox4 is still building... :)
* found a small glitch when cross compiling the binutils deb package
* made a small patch, talked with doko, fix upstream
* installed android on the pandaboard
https://wiki.linaro.org/KenWerner/Sandbox/AndroidOnPanda
* setup an android development environment on my thinkpad
Regards
Ken
RAG:
Red:
Amber:
Green: 1105 work item status 100% complete
Current Milestones:
| Planned | Estimate | Actual |
qemu-linaro 2011-05 | 2011-05-19 | 2011-05-19 | n/a |
close out 1105 blueprints | 2011-05-28 | 2011-05-28 | 201--05-19 |
complete 1111 planning | 2011-05-28 | 2011-05-28 | |
Historical Milestones:
finish qemu-cont-integration | 2011-01-25 | 2011-01-25 | handed off |
first qemu-linaro release | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 |
qemu-linaro 2011-03 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 | 2011-03-08 |
qemu-linaro 2011-04 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 | 2011-04-21 |
== merge-correctness-fixes ==
* last few work items for this blueprint either completed or postponed
[For the record, postponed work:
setting Cortex A8r2 device ID etc regs -- moved to omap3 upstreaming
trustzone -- may get its own blueprint this cycle
VCVT fp exception flags -- postponed as rather tricky and an
obscure corner case that is unlikely to be noticed by users]
== other ==
* tracked down bug with QEMU loading of Google Go produced ELF files,
submitted patch
* talked to our local trustzone expert, very useful
* reworked and resent FPSCR exception flags patches based on review
comments
* reviewed a patch for setting IFSR right for BKPT
* more planning effort
* sent patch to suppress SD card model warnings generated when Linux
probes to see if it's an SDIO card
* redid the "check for unused -nic options" patch as it turned out to
cause regressions with NICs created via -device.
Meetings: toolchain, standup, 1-2-1
Current qemu patch status is tracked here:
https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus
Absences:
(maybe) 15-16 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver
[LinuxCon proper follows on 17-19th]
== This week ==
* Spent almost all the week on GCC's auto inc/dec pass. I first
continued with the incremental "clean ups" and recoding that I'd
started during free time at Budapest, with the idea of bolting the new
optimisations on top of that. However, in the end, I decided it would
be better to rewrite the pass entirely, using a different approach.
I've now got an early prototype of that rewrite, and it seems to be
working as expected on the test cases I've tried so far. I'm running
a regression test over the weekend, although TBH, I expect it to fail
at this stage.
* Tested the fix for vzip, vunz and vtrn. Went well, so I'll submit
next week.
* Blueprints.
== Next week ==
* More auto inc/dec:
* Round off some known rough edges in the prototype.
* Fix bugs.
* Run benchmarks.
* Run code comparison tests (diffing assembly code), both on ARM and
on other targets of interest.
Richard
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release
of Linaro GDB 7.2.
Linaro GDB 7.2 2011.05-0 is the sixth release in the 7.2 series. Based
off the latest GDB 7.2, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes.
This release fixes:
* LP: #615972 Neon registers missing in core files
* LP: #615978 Failure to software single-step into signal handler
* LP: #615996 gdb.cp/templates.exp failures
The source tarball is available at:
https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/+milestone/7.2-2011.05-0
More information on Linaro GDB is available at:
https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro
-- Michael
Can somebody please explain how development happens regarding qemu-linaro ?
I've taken a look here [0] and If I'm not mistaken, there's no code in the
repo. I can see a lot of blueprints, but I don't understand how work is
being done regarding those blueprints or when will it be done! Oh, and what
exactly is the 'qemu-linaro' tarball in the repo ?
I'm not sure how newbie this question is, but please bear with me. :D
Thanks in advance.
[0] https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro
--
Karim Allah Ahmed.
LinkedIn <http://eg.linkedin.com/pub/karim-allah-ahmed/13/829/550/>
Hello,
* Sent 5 SMS related patches for review upstream.
* Backported two SMS patches from mainline to gcc-linaro and
gcc-linaro/4.6 (fixes for unfreed memory)
Thanks,
Revital
Hi,
* committed a patch that supports reductions in SLP (upstream)
* continued analyzing benchmarks: ffmpeg, EEMBC telecom, office, networking
* started to look into implementation of reverse accesses for Neon
* blueprints
Ira
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release
of both Linaro GCC 4.5 and Linaro GCC 4.6.
Linaro GCC 4.5 2011.05 is the tenth release in the 4.5 series. Based
off the latest
GCC 4.5.3+svn173417, it adds new optimisations, much improved support
for strided load/stores, and fixes for many of the issues found in the
last month.
Interesting changes in 4.5 include:
* Updates to 4.5.3+r173417
* Performance improvements in NEON strided loads and stores
* Performance improvements targeted at EEMBC CoreMark
* Precompiled header support on recent Linux kernels
Fixes:
* LP: #660156: Heap randomisation causes PCH testsuite failures
* LP: #784375: vset_lane_u8 intrinsic generates wrong lane number
* LP: #759409: Profiled bootstrap fails in FSF GCC 4.5
* LP: #723086: Test regressions in the Fortran test suite
The strided load/store improvements allow both NEON intrinsics and the
vectoriser to efficiently access values that occur at every n'th
address, such as all of the red values in a RGB image or all of the
left channel samples in a interleaved audio array. Previous versions of GCC
would unpack the values onto the stack instead of using the registers
directly.
The CoreMark improvements improve the code generation for the hot
functions in benchmark. This release is now on par with Linaro GCC
4.4 and significantly ahead of other FSF or Linaro 4.5 based
compilers. This fixes the long-standing problems of ARMv5 being
faster than ARMv7 and 4.4 based compilers being faster than 4.5 based
ones.
Linaro GCC 4.6 is the third release in the 4.6 series. Based off the
latest GCC 4.6.0+svn173480, it adds new optimisations, vectoriser
improvements, and continues with the merge of many ARM-focused
changes.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to 4.6.0+r173417
* Brings forward more of the performance improvements from Linaro GCC 4.5
* Adds support for swing-modulo scheduling
* Fixes precompiled header support on recent Linux kernels
* Changes the default NEON vector size to quads
* Adds auto-detection of the best vector size
* Adds vectorisation improvements due to better if-conversion
Fixes:
* LP: #714921: Uses an unreasonable amount of memory to compile QEMU on armel
* LP: #723086: Test regressions in the Fortran test suite
The source tarball is available from:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.5-2011.05-0https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2011.05-0
Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro
Mailing list: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/
Questions? https://ask.linaro.org/
Interested in commercial support? inquire at support(a)linaro.org
-- Michael
