linaro-dev April 2012

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by Joey STANFORD

Hi, Today we migrated the www.linaro.org website to a new server at our provider. The website was down for less than a minute (pingdom didn't even fire an alert). We've tested it and it appears to be in perfect order. Should you find any issues, please give me a shout. Thanks, Joey -- Joey STANFORD 斯坦福,乔伊 IT Services Manager Office: +1-303-800-6609 http://www.linaro.org/ Open source software for ARM SoCs

13 years, 10 months

Re: Config fragment for Versatile Express [ was: [RFC] First pass config fragment breakout for linaro kernel]

by John Stultz

On 03/29/2012 02:22 AM, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote: > On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 12:20 -0700, John Stultz wrote: >> So after talking about it at the last Linaro Connect, I've finally >> gotten around to making a first pass at providing config fragments for >> the linaro kernel. I'd like to propose merging this for 12.04, and >> doing so early so we can make sure that all the desired config options >> are present in the fragments and to allow the vairous linaro build >> systems to begin migrating their config generation over. >> >> The current tree is here: >> >> http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/jstultz/android.git;a=shortlog;h=refs… >> > [...] >> I'd ask Landing teams to take a look at this, and report any missing >> config options or fragment chunks they'd like to see. > John, I've attached a config fragment for Versatile Express. Great! I've merged that in! There's a few warnings though: Value requested for CONFIG_ARCH_VEXPRESS_DT not in final .config Requested value: CONFIG_ARCH_VEXPRESS_DT=y Actual value: Value requested for CONFIG_FB_ARMHDLCD not in final .config Requested value: CONFIG_FB_ARMHDLCD=y Actual value: I'm guessing these are features not in the base 3.3 tree? If so you might want to break those out and re-add them with those patches. > This includes loadable module support because one of our topic branches > adds the gator module with a default config of 'm'. I did this because > Linaro kernels are expected to have this module available but I didn't > see any reason for it to be built-in, and as there may be versioning > issues between it and the separate user side daemon, I thought it wise > to keep the door open for loading an alternate module obtained from > elsewhere. That decision does mean that all Linaro kernels would need > loadable module support built in, but I don't think that is a bad idea. > Tushar had similar request, but I don't think the android configs (at least the ones I've managed) use modules, so I've added the MODULES=y to the common ubuntu.conf file. If this is still objectionable, it can be changed and we can push it down to the linaro-base.conf, but I want to make sure the Android tree doesn't run into trouble. thanks -john

13 years, 10 months

Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

by Hector Oron

Hello Jo, I am forwarding the message to a couple mailing lists which might have people interested on the Mono porting for ARM hard-float ABI. 2012/2/2 Jo Shields <directhex(a)apebox.org>: > Right now, Mono is available in Debian armhf. This is a hack - what > we're actually doing is building Mono as an armhf binary, but built to > emit soft VFP instructions and using calling conventions and ABI for > armel. This hack works well enough for pure cross-platform code (like > the C# compiler) to run, but dies in a heap for anything complex. > > This situation is a bit on the crappy side of crap. > > In order for Mono on armhf not to be a waste of time, a "true" port > needs to be completed. If I were to make a not-remotely-educated guess, > I'd say it needs about 550 lines of changes, primarily the addition of > code to emit the correct instructions feeling the correct registers in > mono/mini/mini-arm.c plus a couple of tweaks to related headers. > > Upstream have also indicated that they're happy to provide guidance and > pointers on how to implement this port, although they're unable to > provide the requisite code themselves. > > Sadly, unless someone in the community is able to step forward and > contribute here, it's only a matter of time before the armhf packages > are rightfully marked RC-buggy, and 100+ packages need to be axed from > armhf. This would make me sad. -- Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-.

13 years, 10 months

[PATCH 0/4] thermal: Adding generic cpu cooling devices

by Amit Daniel Kachhap

Changes since RFC: *Changed the cpu cooling registration/unregistration API's to instance based *Changed the STATE_ACTIVE trip type to pass correct instance id *Adding support to restore back the policy->max_freq after doing frequency clipping. *Moved the trip cooling stats from sysfs node to debugfs node as suggested by Greg KH greg(a)kroah.com *Incorporated several review comments from eduardo.valentin(a)ti.com Todo: *Report time spent in each trip point along with the cooling statistics *Add opp library support in cpufreq cooling api's Brief Description: 1) The generic cooling devices code is placed inside driver/thermal/* as placing inside acpi folder will need un-necessary enabling of acpi code. 2) This patchset adds a new trip type THERMAL_TRIP_STATE_ACTIVE which passes cooling device instance number and may be helpful for cpufreq cooling devices to take the correct cooling action. 3) This patchset adds generic cpu cooling low level implementation through frequency clipping and cpu hotplug. In future, other cpu related cooling devices may be added here. An ACPI version of this already exists (drivers/acpi/processor_thermal.c). But this will be useful for platforms like ARM using the generic thermal interface along with the generic cpu cooling devices. The cooling device registration API's return cooling device pointers which can be easily binded with the thermal zone trip points. 4)This patchset provides a simple way of reporting cooling achieved in a trip type. This will help in fine cooling the cooling devices attached. Amit Daniel Kachhap (4): thermal: Add a new trip type to use cooling device instance number thermal: Add generic cpufreq cooling implementation thermal: Add generic cpuhotplug cooling implementation thermal: Add support to report cooling statistics achieved by cooling devices Documentation/thermal/cpu-cooling-api.txt | 57 ++++ Documentation/thermal/sysfs-api.txt | 4 +- drivers/thermal/Kconfig | 11 + drivers/thermal/Makefile | 1 + drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c | 484 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/thermal/thermal_sys.c | 165 ++++++++++- include/linux/cpu_cooling.h | 71 +++++ include/linux/thermal.h | 14 + 8 files changed, 802 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/thermal/cpu-cooling-api.txt create mode 100644 drivers/thermal/cpu_cooling.c create mode 100644 include/linux/cpu_cooling.h

13 years, 10 months

ANN: "dumb" HTTP git-hosting on git.linaro.org

by Georgy Redkozubov

Greetings, git.linaro.org supports scalable git clones over HTTP. This was done to eliminate huge resources consumption by clones over GIT and "smart" HTTP protocols by serving files directly with Apache server. To clone read-only git tree use following link: git clone http://git.linaro.org/*git-ro*/people/<username>/<gitproject>.git Your own tree is accessible over "dumb" HTTP protocol by default after creation and you need additional steps to setup only if you are using objects/info/alternates mechanism to borrow objects from other object stores. Then you have to setup objects/info/http-alternates file with appropriate contents (links to remote repositories) and ensure that alternate repository is also accessible over HTTP protocol. Please refer to https://wiki.linaro.org/Process/GitHostingAccounts for more information. -- WBR, Georgy Redkozubov Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog

13 years, 10 months

[RFC] Stable/Development Overlay for Ubuntu LEB

by Ricardo Salveti

Hi, Following some complains and issues with the way we're currently maintaining our main Overlay PPA, I'd like to propose a new way to produce the Ubuntu LEBs, by generating Stable and Unstable/Development focused images. At the moment all the development work for the Ubuntu LEB happens at 2 different repositories: - Staging PPA (https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/staging-overlay): test and development related builds, usually broken but a common place to share the packages before making them official at the LEB. - Overlay PPA (https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/overlay): main overlay repository, and common location for hardware enablement packages and released components by Linaro (e.g. Linux Linaro, glmark2, etc). Using just one single main repository seems fine until you have at least one board fully enabled, with dependencies going from Kernel to user space, as the enablement usually doesn't keep up with the latest development and updates produced by the Landing Teams and Working Groups. One simple case is what happened with Pandaboard, that had a fully enabled userspace (OpenGL ES2.0 and HW Decode), but needed to be locked down with an specific kernel and user space packages. Differently than what we have with Android images, we don't just produce one single tarball where the user is unable to change or extend. At our side we're maintaining a real distro, and updating/upgrading packages is expected. Once we release a fully enabled build, we can't simply break it down with newer updates because will make all users unhappy, which is bad for the users and for Linaro (as it's hard to compare hw enablement, produce demos and such). At the same time, we don't want to be locked down into specific versions, because one of our goals is to make sure the hardware enablement is always matching the latest kernel/components available. Working with upstream based components helps us with development and validation, and also identifying what is still needed to get everything working from time to time. Looking at the problem, here's what I think it'd help to fix the situation: 1 - Overlay PPA becomes the main repository for basic platform development, without having any hardware specific package (not even the kernel): This PPA would be used by all the images we're producing (stable/unstable), as all the changes would be just related with the distribution. Once we get newer components that are not related with hardware enablement, and not critical enough to break compatibility across images, we would be integrating them at this repository (e.g. powertop, glmark2, libpng, libjpeg-turbo, etc). 2 - We create the Development Overlay PPA, to be the main place carrying the hardware related pieces, like kernel, drivers and multimedia: This would be the main PPA used during our own development, always containing the latest kernel packages from the Linux Linaro and Landing Team trees. Here we could also integrate components related with hardware enablement that are not for prime use yet, but would help people that are always looking for the latest stuff available. 3 - Create a set of Stable PPAs for every board we're officially supporting: Here the goal would be to have a single place where we can push the enablement related changes that are known to be working. At the Pandaboard case this PPA would contain the 3.1 based kernel with SGX and HW video decoding working out of the box. Once a new snapshot based on the development release is known to work in a satisfactory way, we would simply just copy them over the Stable PPA for the respective board. This would also help the cases where we have packages with hw enablement changes that conflict with other boards. So in the end we'd be generating 2 sets of hwpacks per board, one based on the Development Overlay (latest components, even if not working properly), and one based on the Stable PPAs, that we know it'll always have a better enablement. Both would be using the same rootfs, as all distro related core changes will be part of the Overlay PPA anyway. I believe this can simply things a bit, and would not consume much of our time as the stable repository would just be a snapshot of a known to be working development PPA. Please let me know what you all think, as we could have this model working with the 12.04 Ubuntu Precise based images already. Thanks, -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo

13 years, 10 months

Linaro Release 12.03 Postmortem Summary

by David Zinman

Postmortem and lessons learned for Linaro's release 2012.03 https://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1203/Release/Review Highlights and Key Successes ============================ The 12.03 release saw the debut of the refurbished Linaro Website with a new content management system that makes creating user content much easier and faster. Development continues to hit deliverable targets with the teams continuing to generate build for platform LEBs and working groups. Linux Linaro under the Ubuntu Developer Platform premiered and will become the baseline on which deliveries will be made. The big.LITTLE Switcher project has launched and is going well with Platform enablement and some Test runs/automation in place. Pre-built release images for the Android and Ubuntu LEBs are currenly available with each of the Linaro monthly releases; however, new with the Linaro 12.03 release is that now developers can get daily pre-builds of the Ubuntu LEB which will be based on the current release of Ubuntu. Pre-built images can be found at snapshots.linaro.org. Postmortem and Lessons Learned ============================== On the heels of a very short release cycle came one of the longest release cycles. Many more blueprints and effort came out of the longer cycle. The length of the cycle allowed team members to focus and increase their productivity. Some issues were highlighted that need to be addressed. Jenkins scripting was offline for a week affecting CI jobs during release week. LAVA continues to have some instabilities. There needs to be some sort of backup or redundancy for Jenkins scripts so that builds are not offline for an extended period. Testing should not solely rely on LAVA. In the event of LAVA issues, other testing methods should be employed. -- David Zinman Linaro Release Manager | Project Manager Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs

13 years, 10 months

12.04 Android Plan Ready for Review

by Zach Pfeffer

Teams, The 12.04 Linaro Android plan is ready for review at: https://launchpad.net/linaro-android/+milestone/12.04 In addition here's the main builds and the kernels they contain. Please take a look. Versatile Express ~linaro-android/vexpress-ics-gcc46-armlt-stable-open git://android.git.linaro.org/kernel/vexpress-a9 armlt-linaro-android-3.3" Versatile Express RTSM ~linaro-android/vexpress-rtsm-ics-gcc46-armlt-stable-open git://git.linaro.org/people/bhoj/linux-3-arm android Panda 4430 and 4460 ~linaro-android/panda-ics-gcc46-tilt-tracking-blob git://android.git.linaro.org/people/andygreen/repo-branch-archive tilt-android-tracking iMX6 ~linaro-android/imx6-ics-gcc46-freescalelt-stable-open git://android.git.linaro.org/kernel/imx6 lt-3.2-imx6-android iMX53 ~linaro-android/imx53-ics-gcc46-freescalelt-stable-open git://android.git.linaro.org/kernel/imx53 lt-3.1-android Snowball ~linaro-android/snowball-ics-gcc46-igloo-stable-blob git://igloocommunity.org/git/kernel/igloo-kernel integration-android-ux500 Origen ~linaro-android/origen-ics-gcc46-samsunglt-stable-blob git://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/samsung/kernel android -- Zach Pfeffer Android Platform Team Lead, Linaro Platform Teams Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Linaro http://twitter.com/#!/linaroorg - http://www.linaro.org/linaro-blog

13 years, 10 months

[PATCH v3] ARM: dts: imx6q: add anatop regulators

by Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)

From: "Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)" <paul.liu(a)linaro.org> Add anatop regulators to imx6q.dtsi for all imx6q platforms. Signed-off-by: Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <paul.liu(a)linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Richard Zhao <richard.zhao(a)linaro.org> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo(a)linaro.org> --- arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q.dtsi | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q.dtsi b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q.dtsi index 263e8f3..33e1e14 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q.dtsi +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q.dtsi @@ -346,6 +346,90 @@ compatible = "fsl,imx6q-anatop"; reg = <0x020c8000 0x1000>; interrupts = <0 49 0x04 0 54 0x04 0 127 0x04>; + + regulator-1p1@110 { + compatible = "fsl,anatop-regulator"; + regulator-name = "vdd1p1"; + regulator-min-microvolt = <800000>; + regulator-max-microvolt = <1375000>; + regulator-always-on; + anatop-reg-offset = <0x110>; + anatop-vol-bit-shift = <8>; + anatop-vol-bit-width = <5>; + anatop-min-bit-val = <4>; + anatop-min-voltage = <800000>; + anatop-max-voltage = <1375000>; + }; + + regulator-3p0@120 { + compatible = "fsl,anatop-regulator"; + regulator-name = "vdd3p0"; + regulator-min-microvolt = <2800000>; + regulator-max-microvolt = <3150000>; + regulator-always-on; + anatop-reg-offset = <0x120>; + anatop-vol-bit-shift = <8>; + anatop-vol-bit-width = <5>; + anatop-min-bit-val = <0>; + anatop-min-voltage = <2625000>; + anatop-max-voltage = <3400000>; + }; + + regulator-2p5@130 { + compatible = "fsl,anatop-regulator"; + regulator-name = "vdd2p5"; + regulator-min-microvolt = <2000000>; + regulator-max-microvolt = <2750000>; + regulator-always-on; + anatop-reg-offset = <0x130>; + anatop-vol-bit-shift = <8>; + anatop-vol-bit-width = <5>; + anatop-min-bit-val = <0>; + anatop-min-voltage = <2000000>; + anatop-max-voltage = <2750000>; + }; + + regulator-vddcore@140 { + compatible = "fsl,anatop-regulator"; + regulator-name = "cpu"; + regulator-min-microvolt = <725000>; + regulator-max-microvolt = <1450000>; + regulator-always-on; + anatop-reg-offset = <0x140>; + anatop-vol-bit-shift = <0>; + anatop-vol-bit-width = <5>; + anatop-min-bit-val = <1>; + anatop-min-voltage = <725000>; + anatop-max-voltage = <1450000>; + }; + + regulator-vddpu@140 { + compatible = "fsl,anatop-regulator"; + regulator-name = "vddpu"; + regulator-min-microvolt = <725000>; + regulator-max-microvolt = <1450000>; + regulator-always-on; + anatop-reg-offset = <0x140>; + anatop-vol-bit-shift = <9>; + anatop-vol-bit-width = <5>; + anatop-min-bit-val = <1>; + anatop-min-voltage = <725000>; + anatop-max-voltage = <1450000>; + }; + + regulator-vddsoc@140 { + compatible = "fsl,anatop-regulator"; + regulator-name = "vddsoc"; + regulator-min-microvolt = <725000>; + regulator-max-microvolt = <1450000>; + regulator-always-on; + anatop-reg-offset = <0x140>; + anatop-vol-bit-shift = <18>; + anatop-vol-bit-width = <5>; + anatop-min-bit-val = <1>; + anatop-min-voltage = <725000>; + anatop-max-voltage = <1450000>; + }; }; usbphy@020c9000 { /* USBPHY1 */ -- 1.7.9.1

13 years, 10 months

Fwd: third test rebuild of precise pangolin

by Matthias Klose

FYI, this is about a test rebuild of precise pangolin, including armhf. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: third test rebuild of precise pangolin Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:43:58 +0200 From: Matthias Klose <doko(a)ubuntu.com> To: ubuntu-devel <ubuntu-devel-announce(a)lists.ubuntu.com> CC: ubuntu-devel <ubuntu-devel(a)lists.ubuntu.com> Another (and probably the last) test rebuild for precise pangolin is currently running on amd64, armhf and i386 (finished for main, universe is still building). The results will show up at [1]. The rebuild is running on the distro buildds, so please be a bit conservative with uploading packages (e.g. really do a successful local build before upload). Please look at the build failures for the packages in the "superseded" section too. It's not guaranteed that these are really fixed. Matthias [1] http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-201203…

13 years, 10 months

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