The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of
Linaro QEMU 2012.05.
Linaro QEMU 2012.05 is the latest monthly release of qemu-linaro. Based
off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes
and enhancements.
New in this month's release:
- Beagle bootrom emulation now correctly handles FAT12/FAT16
images (thanks to Peter Chubb for the bug report and patch).
- We now support running ARM BE8 userspace binaries (ie
byte-invariant big-endian data and little-endian code).
Known issues:
- Graphics do not work for OMAP3 based models (beagle, overo)
with 11.10 Linaro images.
- Audio may not work on Versatile Express models with the latest
Linaro kernel/hardware packs (LP:977610).
The source tarball is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2012.05
More information on Linaro QEMU is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro
There will be no release of Linaro GDB this month. We're busy working
on upstreaming Android support and will backport them as they come
ready.
-- Michael
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2012.05
release of both Linaro GCC 4.7 and Linaro GCC 4.6.
Linaro GCC 4.7 2012.05 is the second release in the 4.7 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.7.0+svn187448 release, it includes performance
improvements especially around 64 bit operations.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to GCC 4.7.0+svn187448
* Uses the new /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3 loader for hard float binaries
* Adds support for negating 64 bit values in NEON
* Improves loading of 64 bit immediate values in NEON
Fixes:
* LP: #959242 ICE: in vect_is_simple_use_1, at tree-vect-stmts.c
* LP: #968766 GCC 4.6.3 (cc1) crashes when compiling MPFR 3.1.0
Linaro GCC 4.6 2012.05 is the fifteenth release in the 4.6 series.
Based off the latest GCC 4.6.3+svn187273 release, this is the second
release after entering maintenance.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to 4.6.3+svn187273
Fixes:
* LP: #959242 ICE: in vect_is_simple_use_1, at tree-vect-stmts.c
* LP: #968766 GCC 4.6.3 (cc1) crashes when compiling MPFR 3.1.0
* LP: #972648 ICE (segfault) in gsi_for_stmt
The source tarballs are available from:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.7-2012.05https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2012.05
Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro
More information on the features and issues are available from the
release page:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.7/4.7-2012.05
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
Hi,
OpenEmbedded-Core/meta-linaro:
* reverted the gcc 4.7 support from the denzil branch as it's causing
too much trouble
* instead we'll use a oe-core master snaphsot for 4.7
* committed a fix to our kernel bbappend
* started to look into cbuild
* added configurations to support building the images for all
oe-core targets
* created lp:~kwerner/cbuild/oecore
* kicked off a build for ARM, MIPS, PPC, X86, X86_64 using Linaro
GCC 4.6 2012.04
Misc:
* IBM internal meetings
* public holiday on Thu, vacation on Fri
I'll be back on monday
Regards,
Ken
Hi Ramana. FYI, gcc trunk fails to bootstrap with:
../../../../gcc-4.8~/libgcc/libgcc2.c: In function '__mulvdi3':
../../../../gcc-4.8~/libgcc/libgcc2.c:397:1: internal compiler error:
in df_uses_record, at df-scan.c:3179
A cross compiler fails when building EEMBC with:
(insn 1166 1165 1167 155 (set (reg:CC 24 cc)
(compare:CC (reg:SI 2148 [ D.6766 ])
(const_int 5000 [0x1388]))) iirflt01/bmark.c:501 -1
(nil))
iirflt01/bmark.c:1138:1: internal compiler error: in extract_insn, at
recog.c:2131
The last revision that bootstrapped was 187203. 187223 and 187275 failed.
-- Michael
The GCC 4.7 merge testing is currently in progress. We're a little late
with it, so I'm spinning the release speculatively. This being the case
I've made the lp:gcc-linaro branch read-only, just in case.
This shouldn't prevent anybody from reading the branch with
"lp:gcc-linaro", but the "lp:~linaro-toolchain-dev/gcc-linaro/4.7" name
will be broken for a while, so you may find "bzr pull" broken. (The
reason being that the only way to make a bzr branch read-only is to
change its owner.)
I will put the branch back to its normal state as soon as the release is
done.
Andrew
Hi there. We'd like to run a Fast Model in the validation lab for KVM
testing. Is there a blueprint for this? What's the status?
Paul and I discussed a rough plan a few months ago. It was along the lines of:
* A x86 machine as the Fast Model host
* An emulated vexpress-a15 as the KVM host
* A vexpress-a15 as the KVM guest
* LAVA treats the Fast Model as a board
* Jobs are spawned into the LAVA scheduler
* Once the KVM host is running, everything else is toolchain specific
and done via shell scripts
The dispatcher would:
* Grab the hwpack
* Grab the nano rootfs
* Build the rootfs with separate kernel, initrd, and dtb using
linaro-media-create
* Start the Fast Model with the boot wrapper, kernel, and rootfs
* Use the console to run the test script
There's more information on the steps required at:
https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/KVMUseCase
-- Michael
== GCC ==
* Checked in patch to fix LP #959242 (GCC PR tree-optimization/52633)
to Linaro GCC 4.7 and 4.6.
* Completed design of new optimization sub-pass to improve
re-association of plus/minus chains for types with undefined
overflow (to improve end-of-loop value computation);
started implementation.
* Investigated GCC PR target/44141.
* Started investigation of TSVC vectorizer test kernels.
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards
Ulrich Weigand
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IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH
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* Linaro GCC
Did the merges from upstream ahead of the Linaro releases next week.
Unfortunately, with the Linaro office move the test system is running
slowly, and it took a long while for Uli's concerns about the 4.7 merge
to be confirmed, so this might cause a bit of delay while I remerge, and
retest.
Begun looking at a solution for GCC Bugzilla pr53189. I've rewritten the
anddi3, iordi3 and xordi3 patterns to avoid the problems when NEON is
not available, and also improved the situation when NEON is enabled.
There are still a few kinks that need to be ironed out with poorly
optimized extend-and-operate sequences, and then I'm done, I hope.
* Other
Public holiday on Monday.
