== GCC ==
* Checked first part of fwprop-subreg patch into mainline.
* Checked Ira's vectorizer patches into mainline.
* Ongoing work on improving end-of-loop value computation.
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards
Ulrich Weigand
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The final version of the 'Building at -O3' writeup is at:
https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain/BuildingAtO3
This updates the SPEC 2000 results to show that there is a net win
which is held back by a bad (but understood) regression in one
benchmark.
Thank you all for your work on this,
-- Michael
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of
Linaro QEMU 2012.03.
Linaro QEMU 2012.03 is the latest monthly release of qemu-linaro. Based
off upstream (trunk) QEMU, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes
and enhancements.
Highlights in this month's release:
- we now default to enabling 'reserve memory for guest' on 64 bit hosts
in linux-user-mode. This significantly reduces the chances of QEMU
being unable to satisfy a guest process mmap() request.
- Fix for a bug that was causing spurious failures of the glibc check
for "%n in a format string must be in a read-only area of memory"
when running in linux-user-mode.
- QEMU's built-in boot loader now supports passing a device tree blob
to the kernel: if you boot with -kernel mykernel (and optionally
-initrd myinitrd) you can now also use the new command line option
-dtb my.dtb to pass a device tree.
- This version includes an initial implementation of a model of the
Samsung Exynos4210 SoC, used by board models 'nuri' and 'smdkc210'
(thanks to Evgeny Voevodin, Maksim Kozlov, Igor Mitsyanko and
Dmitry Solodkiy from Samsung, who submitted this work to upstream
QEMU).
- This version includes an initial implementation of a model of the
Calxeda Highbank SoC, used by board model 'highbank' (thanks to Rob
Herring and Mark Langsdorf of Calxeda, who submitted this work to
upstream QEMU).
- various other minor bug fixes (detailed in the Changelog.LINARO).
Known issues:
- Graphics do not work for OMAP3 based models (beagle, overo)
with 11.10 Linaro images.
The source tarball is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2012.03
More information on Linaro QEMU is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro
The GCC release tested up just fine. The branch is now open for commits.
The next release is Thursday the 12th of April. Note that this is the
week after Easter.
-- Michael
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2012.03
release of both Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5.
Linaro GCC 4.6 2012.03 is the thirteenth release in the 4.6 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.6.3 release, it contains a new scheduler pressure pass,
implements new instructions, and contains a number of bug fixes.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to 4.6.3.
* Better performance by accounting for register pressure when
scheduling instructions.
* Support for the ARMv6 USAT/SSAT saturation instructions.
* Support for the VFP VCVT fixed to floating point conversion instruction.
Fixes:
* LP: #922474 Bug in __sync_lock_release with 64 bit primitives
* LP: #923397 Alignment attribute has no effect under certain conditions
* LP: #926855 [ARMhf] gcc produces assembler it can't compile
* LP: #936863 ICE in constprop.2 (ARM NEON related?)
* LP: #942307 'asm' operand requires impossible reload
* LP: #952565 Not compliant with the ABI for multi-register NEON intrinsics
Linaro GCC 4.5 2012.03 is the nineteenth release in the 4.5 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.5.3+svn184976 release, this is a maintenance only
update.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to 4.5.3+svn184976.
The source tarballs are available from:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2012.03https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.5-2012.03
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/4.6/4.6-2012.03
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
EEMBC have announced AndEBench, a mixed native/Java benchmark for
Android. It's available on the Market.
I don't know much more. It seems to be CPU bound and the test names
sound a bit like CoreMark. The source is available for license and
might be worth the Android guys looking into.
The awesome thing is they used the 2012.01 Linaro Binary toolchain
release to build the native parts - see the compiler version string in
the log :)
-- Michael
Hi,
GDB for Android:
* Wrote first draft of the GDB for Android card.
* Found out that there actually is a libthread_db.so in /system/lib
and was able to compile (after a small hack) an FSF gdbserver 7.3
which uses the libthread_db.so from Android and correctly shows
all threads in the process. So the libthread_db.so from Android
actually works, still have to learn why they don't use it.
* Tried to compile a native GDB which uses libthread_db.so but no
luck so far. There are many differences in bionic's header files
which upset libiberty and gnulib which are not easy to work around.
--
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann
Linaro Toolchain Working Group
We now do a SPEC ref run when benchmarking. I've updated the
linaro-toolchain-benchmarks scripts to handle the changes and spawned
some historical builds to do comparisons. All earlier builds have
been archived to prevent confusion.
The human readable summary is now also included in the results. See:
http://ex.seabright.co.nz/benchmarks/gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.02/logs/armv7l-nat…
for an example.
Half an hour to build, 26 hours to run. Not too bad.
-- Michael
Here's brief notes on running different benchmark variants across the
auto builders. Asa, could you pull these plus your notes into a wiki
page?
Spawn a job:
http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/scheduler/spawn
Merge requests are automatically built. Otherwise, drop arbitrary
tarballs into cbuild@orion:~/snapshots and spawn <tarball name minus
extension>. For example, scp gcc-4.6.3.tar.gz
cbuild@orion:~/snapshots; spawn gcc-4.6.3 into a9-builder.
Jobs:
* gcc-version - build and test GCC
* benchmarks-gcc-version - run coremark, denbench, eembc against the
already built version
* benchmarks-spec2000-gcc-version - run spec2000
Queues:
* a9-builders: anything that can naive build a A9 compiler
* a9-ref: reference A9 boards
* a8-ref: reference A8 boards
Variables:
* BENCHMARKS = list, such as coremark spec2000 pybench - run these
benchmarks instead of the defaults
Variants:
* By default we build o3-neon
* See http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~linaro-toolchain-dev/cbuild/trunk/view/head:/l…
for all names
* Spawn a job with VARIANT_SRC = all and VARIANT_LIST = glob-pattern
Examples:
* VARIANT_LIST = o3-neon o3-vfpv3 (compare NEON with VFPv3D32)
* VARIANT_LIST = o3-neon-cortexa8 o3-neon-cortexa9 (compare
-mtune=cortexa8 vs -mtune=cortexa9(
* VARIANT_LIST = o3-neon-novect o3-neon (compare with/without the vectoriser)
-- Michael
I'd like to announce a change in how the Linaro Toolchain group notify
about our monthly releases. In the past we've sent one email per
product to the linaro-announce list. From this week forward a summary
of all products will be included in the main, end of month
announcement instead.
We'll continue to send a per product emails to the linaro-toolchain
list when the mid-month release is available. If you'd like to get
things two weeks early, please subscribe[1]. You can filter on the
word '[ANNOUNCE]' to filter out the development chatter. A RSS feed
is also available[2].
-- Michael
[1] http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
[2] http://feeds.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain/announcements.atom
