=== Highlights ===
* Chased down some community issues related to long uptime (215 day)
crashes and sched_clock. Developed a patch that uses rcu to update sched
clock data and avoid multiplication overflows.
* Booked plane tickets for Linaro Connect
* Contacted Robert Love on his updated ashmem patch and got a feel for
his thoughts on upstreaming it.
* Continued working on my android alarmtimer test case, and found a few
last bugs with my integration with the upstream code.
* Sent my current Android alarmtimer integration patches to Arve
directly for review.
* Updated the Linaro+Android 3.0 branch and pushed it out.
* Briefly reviewed and tested amitk's topology patches with Android.
=== Plans ===
* Continue working on Android Alarm Timer validation test case & send
patches to Arve directly if AOSP license stuff is unresolved.
* Get back to Kconfig review/research.
=== Issues ===
* AOSP group issue still keeping me from submitting alarmtimer
integration patches to AOSP. Hopefully when Patrik gets back next week
it can be resolved.
* Linaro Connect Hotel is totally booked, working with Arwen on sorting
out alternative hotel.
=== Highlights ===
* Finished kprobes work (yey!), this is waiting to be merged upstream.
Submission of test code is postponed for now as suggested by Nicolas.
* Took a day off work.
=== Plans ===
* Start work on blueprint "Investigate block allocation in FS"
== Kernel maintainance ==
* Merged branches for omap, imx, at91, davinci, ... into arm-soc.git. More coming
* Tension building up short before merge window, everybody wants their patches in
at once.
* Continued discussions about CMA patches
* Review of latest OpenRISC arch patches
* Review of latest DA9052 patches
== Thomas Abraham <thomas-ab> ==
=== Highlights ===
* Working on modifying the samsung uart driver to use to generic clock names
instead of passing clock names in platform data (required for dt support).
=== Plans ===
* Submit the second version of device tree patches for smdkv310 board.
=== Misc ===
* Was on leave from 5th to 7th July.
=== Device Tree ===
* With another couple rounds of review, the dt support of imx serial,
fec, gpio, esdhc and spi are ready for maintainers to pick up.
=== Plan ===
* i2c, sdma dt support
--
Regards,
Shawn
== Dave Martin <dmart> ==
=== General Activity ===
* Some kernel patch work:
* CPU info declaration macros -- Addressed Russell's
commented and reposted.
In Will Deacon's tree, waiting for merge upstream.
* Some discussion around VDSO support. Still no clear
answer on this.
=== linaro-kernel-o-standard-arch ===
* Experimentally merged the ael tree with linux-linaro-2.6.39.
Some minor rebasing issues, but finally got something booting
on the Cortex-A15 model.
=== Plans ===
* Check whether the new kernel trees work in Thumb-2 on mx51evk
and follow up with Freescale landing team.
* Suggest we disable aligment fixups for linaro images, since
gtk-sharp2 is now the only thing known to be affected.
=== Issues ===
* Not enough RAM in my development machine for running models :(
== Per Forlin <perfor> ==
=== Highlights ===
* mmc non-blocking patchset v9 is merged in mmc-next for 3.1
* Submitted mmc non-blocking documentation, review process is ongoing.
=== Completed work items ===
* None
=== Plans ===
Continue with my 4 weeks of vacation during July.
I will be monitoring mmc non-blocking.
=== Highlights ===
* Discussions with Dave Martin and Nicolas Pitre about how kprobes
should handle Thumb/ARM interworking, and supporting ARM probes on
Thumb kernels.
* Changed kprobes code following the above.
* Submitted patches to linux-arm-kernel list for review. (At last!)
This is a work item from blueprint "Finish Thumb2 Support"
* kprobes - Prepare patches for review: DONE
=== Plans ===
* Tidyup and document kprobe test code
* Start work on blueprint "Investigate block allocation in FS"
=== Highlights ===
* Released initial linaro+android-3.0 kernel branch
* Researched and resolved ADB regressions in linaro+android-3.0 kernel
* Worked with patch author to get upstream 3.0 echi boot hang issue on
panda reverted upstream.
* Worked with Nico to get a fix for panda pmu boot hang applied to the
2.6.39 tree (bug #802693)
* Lots of discussions with Andy, Zach, Deepak and Nicolas about kernel
workflow for 11.07 and beyond.
* Isolated RTC issue upstream seen with older kvm releases. See
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36252
* Nagged tglx to pick up the git pull requests sent last week for 3.1
* Continued POSIX/Android Alarm Timer merging work along with creating
a test case to validate the merged result.
=== Plans ===
* Continue working on Android Alarm Timer validation test case & send
patches to Arve directly if AOSP license stuff is unresolved.
* Get back to Kconfig review/research.
=== Issues ===
* Pinged folks on AOSP contributers license group issue, but haven't
gotten any resolution yet.
Hey Nico,
As posted in https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux-linaro/+bug/802693 the
following commit has been causing boot hangs on some panda boards:
arm: omap4: support pmu - 4fefbe94a77c3d3b5e75d386628c36298c72c57f
Reverting it seems to resolve the hang. Avik doesn't see the problem on
his board, but Zach and I both have hit it with ours. We have not gotten
any traction on resolving the hang and its blocking Linaro Android
Platform Images for panda.
Since its been a week with no solution, I wanted to propose we revert
that patch.
How does that sound?
thanks
-john
