Hello,
# [GNU-732] GDB support for ARMv9 Scalable Matrix Extension (SME)
* Continued working on gdbserver and remote protocol support for
programs that change the SVE vector length during execution:
- Studied the 2020 discussion around Luis' proposal to support changed
VL size in the Remote Serial Protocol / gdbserver, as well as
relevant parts of the RSP itself.
- Started studying GDB's type system and how it handles dynamic types,
and also the target description code to assess the feasibility of
making the vector registers use a dynamically sized type.
- Luis made a second proposal in that mailing list discussion where
the target description wouldn't be transferred via the remote
protocol, just the vector length. Then both GDB and gdbserver could
locally update their own descriptions based on that. Starting to
think about this alternative. It would probably be simpler than
changing the target description to use a dynamically sized type for
the Z registers.
# Basic setup / onboarding
* Work laptop arrived. Set it up.
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Thiago
Progress:
* UM-2 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
+ More of the usual freeze-related work
* QEMU-420 [GICv4 emulation]
+ I think the code is more or less bug-free now; still need to
figure out the best way for a board to request a GICv4
(eg do we want a 'revision' property specifying 3, 3.1, 4, 4.1,
or just 3 vs 4 with some optional booleans for extra features?)
-- PMM
Hello,
# [GNU-732] GDB support for ARMv9 Scalable Matrix Extension (SME)
* Continued reading patches from Mark Brown's v12 patch set adding SME
support to the Linux kernel. Sent a few trivial review comments.
* After conversation with Luis, decided to work on gdbserver and remote
protocol support for programs which change the SVE vector length
during execution (native GDB already supports it). This issue will
most likely be relevant for SME as well. Started by studying Luis'
proposal from 2020 and background information provided by him.
# Basic setup / onboarding
* Bought a work laptop.
* Set up access to the team's machines.
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Thiago
Progress (for a week-and-a-half)
* UM-2 [QEMU upstream maintainership]
+ Lots of freeze-related work (softfreeze was last week and we tagged
rc0 this week)
+ Code review of other peoples's stuff to go into the release
+ Assembling arm pullreqs
+ Investigating an intermittent failure in one of our test cases on
s390 host, which seems like it may be a bug in the s390
h/w-accelerated zlib
* QEMU-420 [GICv4 emulation]
+ Still debugging...
-- PMM
Hello,
I see this release gcc-linaro-4.9-2016.02 for 86_64_arm-linux-gnueabihf:
https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/4.9-2016.02/arm-l…
and would like to reproduce the toolchain for aarch64 hosts. I see that it was built with ABE, though I have generally been unsuccessful in getting ABE to work on aarch64 for this. I was looking for some build or ci breadcrumbs or documentation. What can you recommend?
The motivation here is to support legacy development/testing from modern aarch64 hardware.
Cheers,
Joe Gorse
Hello,
# GDB support for ARMv9 Scalable Matrix Extension (SME)
- Synced with Luis Machado to learn what the current status is. Read
discussions in the linux-arm-kernel mailing list which he pointed to.
- Read Arm architecture documentation about Neon, SVE, SVE2 and SME to
familiarise myself with these features.
- Basic setup / onboarding
- Joined some internal and external mailing lists, IRC and Slack
channels.
- Read some company policy documents.
- Researched models and got a quote for a work laptop.
- Set up aarch64 cross-compilation environment on my laptop.
- Set up emulated aarch64 machine with Fedora on my laptop.
- Attempted setting up emulated aarch64 machine with Ubuntu on my
laptop, but ran into problems with the Ubuntu Server installer.
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Thiago
Project Stratos
===============
- spent some time talking through design approaches for xen
vhost-master with Viresh
Linux RPMB Sub-system and virtio-driver ([STR-40])
- continued working on [Linux driver]
- discovered a bug in vhost-user config handling in QEMU as well
[STR-40] <https://linaro.atlassian.net/browse/STR-40>
[Linux driver]
<http://git.linaro.org/people/alex.bennee/linux.git/shortlog/refs/heads/rpmb…>
QEMU Upstream Work ([UM-2])
===========================
- posted [PULL 00/18] testing and semihosting updates Message-Id:
<20220301094715.550871-1-alex.bennee(a)linaro.org>
Other
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- started work on presentation for LTD
Completed Reviews [5/5]
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[PATCH] gdbstub.c: add support for info proc mappings
Message-Id: <20220221030910.3203063-1-dominik.b.czarnota(a)gmail.com>
[PATCH] tests/Makefile.include: Let "make clean" remove the TCG tests, too
Message-Id: <20220301085900.1443232-1-thuth(a)redhat.com>
[PATCH 0/3] gdbstub: add support for switchable endianness
Message-Id: <20210823142004.17935-1-changbin.du(a)gmail.com>
[PATCH 0/6] More record/replay acceptance tests
Message-Id: <162332427732.194926.7555369160312506539.stgit@pasha-ThinkPad-X280>
[PATCH v6 00/43] CXl 2.0 emulation Support
Message-Id: <20220211120747.3074-1-Jonathan.Cameron(a)huawei.com>
Absences
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Current Review Queue
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TODO [PATCH v4 00/18] target/arm: Implement LVA, LPA, LPA2 features
Message-Id: <20220301215958.157011-1-richard.henderson(a)linaro.org>
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TODO [RFC PATCH 00/27] Virtio sound card implementation
Message-Id: <20210429120445.694420-1-chouhan.shreyansh2702(a)gmail.com>
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TODO [PATCH v4 00/41] linux-user: Streamline handling of SIGSEGV
Message-Id: <20211006172307.780893-1-richard.henderson(a)linaro.org>
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Alex Bennée