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by Peter Maydell

Progress: * virtio: ** have some patches that work (including modifying the device tree to tell the kernel where the virtio transports are) ** more cleanup still required; in particular need to figure out nice way of having the board model tell boot.c where the transports are and what the interrupt routing info should look like ** virtio spec needs clarification about what a virtio-mmio transport with no backend is supposed to look like * misc: ** fixed linux-user utimensat breakage caused by a patch of mine from last week ** helped Grant Likely with debugging problems running UEFI on QEMU (and caught a QEMU bug in the process) ** reviewed another round of LDA/STL patches and a VSEL patch Plans: * continue mach-virt/virtio work -- PMM

13 years

[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Toolchain Binaries 2013.06 released

by Bernhard Rosenkränzer

The Linaro Toolchain and Platform Working Groups are pleased to announce the 2013.06 release of the Linaro Toolchain Binaries, a pre-built version of Linaro GCC and Linaro GDB that runs on generic Linux or Windows and targets the glibc Linaro Evaluation Build. Uses include: * Cross compiling ARM applications from your laptop * Remote debugging * Build the Linux kernel for your board What's included: * Linaro GCC 4.8 2013.06 * Linaro Newlib 2.0 2013.06 * Linaro Binutils 2.23 2013.06 * Linaro Eglibc 2.17-2013.06 (Aarch64 only) * Linaro GDB 7.6 2013.05 * A statically linked gdbserver * A system root * Manuals under share/doc/ The system root contains the basic header files and libraries to link your programs against. Interesting changes include: * Linaro versions of Binutils, Newlib and Eglibc are included The Linux version is supported on Ubuntu 10.04.3 and 12.04, Debian 6.0.2, Fedora 16, openSUSE 12.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5.7 and later, and should run on any Linux Standard Base 3.0 compatible distribution. Please see the README about running on x86_64 hosts. The Windows version is supported on Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Vista Business SP2, and Windows 7 Pro SP1. The binaries and build scripts are available from: https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries/trunk/2013.05 Need help? Ask a question on https://ask.linaro.org/ Already on Launchpad? Submit a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-binaries On IRC? See us on #linaro on Freenode. Other ways that you can contact us or get involved are listed at https://wiki.linaro.org/GettingInvolved. Note: This will likely be the last release built with support for (e)glibc 2.15 on armv7. With future releases, you will have to either use a newer (e)glibc on the target system, or link statically.

13 years, 1 month

Re: [Buildroot] Bizarre behavior of armeb toolchain

by Will Newton

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni(a)free-electrons.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm facing a bizarre problem with an armeb toolchain built by > Buildroot. I'm also posting this to the crossgcc@ list since there are > some gcc/binutils experts out there. > > First, a little bit of background. ARM Big Endian comes into two > variants: > > * BE32, which was used up to ARMv5, where both the instructions and > the data are Big Endian. > > * BE8, which is used since ARMv6, where the instructions remain > little-endian and only the data are big-endian. > > See > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.ddi0338g/ch06s0… > for some details about this. > > So, I've built an ARMv7 Cortex-A8 toolchain, with the armeb > architecture selected. The CROSS-gcc -v shows that it was configured as > follows: > > --target=armeb-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabi > --with-abi=aapcs-linux > --with-arch=armv7-a > --with-tune=cortex-a8 > > Then, I wrote a simple program that contains some data and > instructions, built it under several conditions, and observed with > hexdump whether the data and code was little-endian or big-endian. > > And the results are somewhat surprising: when I explicitly pass > -mbig-endian, I get the proper behavior (BE8 code with code in little > endian and data in big endian), but when I don't pass any flags to the > compiler, I get an incorrect behavior: both the code and data are big > endian, as if the BE8 wasn't used (and readelf confirms that it wasn't > used). See below the detailed results. > > Note that the compiler is supposed to automatically use BE8 on > ARMv6/ARMv7 and BE32 on ARMv5 and earlier cores. > > The data is DEADBEEF, and the instruction is E52DB004. > > Flags used Observed data Observed code Comment > ======================= =============== =============== ========================================= > > -mlittle-endian EFBEADDE 04B02DE5 Code and data in LE -> OK > -mbig-endian DEADBEEF 04B02DE5 Code LE, data BE, binary marked BE8 -> OK > no flags DEADBEEF E52DB004 Data BE (ok!), code BE (*NOT* ok) -> NOK > -march=armv5t -mbig-endian DEADBEEF E52DB004 Code and data in BE, on ARMv5 -> OK > -march=armv5t DEADBEEF E52DB004 Code and data in BE, on ARMv5 -> OK > > As can be seen in this table: > > (*) On ARMv5, regardless of whether -mbig-endian is passed or not, the > code produced is correct (both code and data are big endian, which is > correct for ARMv5 where the big endian mode is BE32) > > (*) On ARMv7 however, the code is different whether -mbig-endian is > passed or not, even though an "armeb-linux" compiler is supposed to > generate big endian code by default. When no flags is passed, both the > data *and* code are big-endian (so it's BE32 like on ARMv5), but > passing -mbig-endian makes the thing behave properly (code is > little-endian, data is big-endian). > > I'm using binutils 2.23.2 and gcc 4.7.3. > > Any ideas? Hi Thomas, I added linaro-toolchain to CC as there may be someone there who knows the answer.

13 years, 1 month

RE: Semi-hosting on v8 Foundation Model using gnu tools

by rorycollins＠hushmail.com

I got an app to compile fine for v8 FM with gcc, but I notice that seg-faults hang the simulator. Using raise() properly exits FM, but I can't seem to trap the seg-fault with signal() or do anything intelligent to know about the seg-fault. Normal execution works well. int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { * (unsigned int *) (0) = 0; // seg-fault hangs FM return(0); } thanks, Rory -----Original Message----- From: linaro-toolchain-boun...(a)lists.linaro.org [mailto:linaro-toolchain-boun...@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Gretton-Dann Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 2:47 PM To: Padgett Don-B43265 Cc: linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org Subject: Re: Semi-hosting on v8 Foundation Model using gnu tools Don, On 17/05/13 20:57, Padgett Don-B43265 wrote: > The v8 Foundation Model User Guide has a bare metal hello world example > that uses semi-hosting. The Makefile uses ARM tools, however. Is there > equivalent support for this example using a bare metal version of the > gnu tools, such as > gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.04-20130422_linux.tar.xz? I took > a look, but didn't see a way to do this. It is possible but not necessarily easy. Using the binary tools you've downloaded you will want to do something like the following: aarch64-none-elf-gcc -specs=elf-aem-ve.specs ... The -specs option has to be on all your invocations of GCC and G++. You should also invoke the linker through GCC with this option. Then you need to invoke the model, given an image called foo.axf: Foundation_v8 --image foo.axf --semi-host="foo.axf OPT1 OPT2" --quiet Note that the first option to --semi-host is the name of the image again. Thanks, Matt

13 years, 1 month

Re: gcc 4.8-2013.06 reports incorrect version number

by Mans Rullgard

You'll have better luck sending bug reports to the linaro-toolchain mailing list. On 18 June 2013 11:50, Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bernhard.rosenkranzer(a)linaro.org> wrote: > Hi, > the 4.8-2013.06 tarball built without version overrides reports itself as: > 4.8-2013.06-0~dev > Looks like the release flag isn't set in the tarball. > > ttyl > bero -- Mans Rullgard / mru

13 years, 1 month

[ACTIVITY] 10-14 June 2013

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * Merges for linaro-4.8-2013.06: - investigated why the cross-validation lack libpthread and libdl. - fixed cbuild to make these libs available in the same dir as ld-linux.so - not sure why it wasn't necessary several weeks ago when I first spawn libsanitizer tests: we changed the prebuilt tarball since then, but the libs are still at the same place; the binutils version changed though. * Re-spawned a merge request for libsanitizer, using the updated cbuild (libpthread/libdl support, qemu flags updated) and the updated gcc-4.8 (with my patch to cope with qemu's output of /proc/self/maps) * Merges for linaro-4.8-2013.07: updated list * Aarch64 frame growing downward: started. * Disable-peeling: restarting looking at vectorizer. == Next == * Merges for linaro-4.[78]-2013.07: update list * disable peeling: see how to make the vectorizer less aggressive * Aarch64 frame growing downward. * Neon intrinsics/vuzip/veor: resume work * Book hotel/flight for Connect

13 years, 1 month

[ACTIVITY] Week 24

by Yvan Roux

== Issues == * None. == Progress == * Releases merge reviews: - Finished reviews for releases. * Launchpad bug #1187247: - Closed as invalid since the issue was on an attempt to access at an invalid address. * Cbuild Babysitting: - Fixed 4.8 repository update on toolchain64. - Recreate ancestors tarballs and re-spawned jobs - Re-started Calxedas... * LRA on ARM and AArch64: - Resumed the task. - Investigation of AArch64 failure on-going. == Plan == * Mainly LRA

13 years, 1 month

[ACTIVITY] 10-14 June 2013

by Venkataramanan Kumar

== Progress == * libssp support for AArch64 Libssp support needed AArch64 frame to grow downward. But it is currently defined as growing upward. This work is currently in hold. Needed frame layout changes before restarting. Waiting for feedback from Matt. * AAarch64 testing Drilling down Boot strap failure with GCC 4.9 trunk on open embedded image with V8 model. Fails at time xg++ is linking. Not much progress. Set up Cross build and test in V8 model for GCC testsuites. Also looking at increasing timeout for individual tests. * AArch64 LTO and PGO support. Started on understanding PGO and LTO runs with AArch64. == Plan == * Continue bootstrap testing and push patches to GCC * Continue LTO and PGO runs for AArch64

13 years, 1 month

[ACTIVITY] 10 - 14 June 2013

by Omair Javaid

== Progress == * Investigated gdb.dwarf2 unsupported issues wrote two new patches for gdb.dwarf2 testsuite. * Read some background on dwarf2 to translate test written in x86 assembly into arm assembly. * Got refusal of visa from Irish embassy. Ran after visa consultants for issues related to visa application. * Calls with Irish consulate officers for appeal process and causes of refusal. == Plan == * Submit ready patches for dwarf2 untested/unsupported problems. * Translate dwarf2 tests written in x86 to arm asm. * Chromebook os update on a faster sd card. (Still pending) * Add JIRA cards for gdb features missing on arm. (Still pending) * Prepare documentation for future visa applications.

13 years, 1 month

[ACTIVITY] Week 24

by Zhenqiang Chen

== Issues == * None == Progress == * Investigate conditional compare RTL representation. - Expand conditional compare to cmp_and/cmp_ior. - Test is ongoing * Investigate lp: 1189445. Patch is in testing. * Identify the root cause for lp: 1189448. FSF4.8 does not have the buggy code. Linaro 2013.06 and trunk have fixed it. == Plan == * Continue on conditional compare.

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