== QEMU ==
* Wrote a fix for bug 883133 (code buffer/libc conflict); spent some
time testing it because
I wasn't sure whether the crash I was seeing after that was my fix not
being complete or actually
bug 893208.
* Got it to boot with -cpu 486; without that it's triple faulting in
a divide just after a load of time stamp
reads which makes me suspicious that 893208 is a timer problem.
* (It also fails when used with vnc graphics, but works in SDL and
curses, but I'll leave that bug for
another time).
== String routines ==
* With one more tweak to my memchr, it finally made it into eglibc.
Dave
Hi,
I received this question from an ARM FAE:
Does the 4.5.2 version support A15 optimization? Or would
you recommend using the latest 4.6 versions?
Thanks for any response I could forward back to him.
Best regards,
Matt
== This week ==
* Got the -fsched-pressure code into a state where it's almost
presentable. Found a few more things to tweak on the way.
Fixed some FIXMEs, notably to honour MAX_SCHED_READY_INSNS.
* More testing on ARM. Tried to get some SPEC2000 results
as well as the usual EEMBC & DENbench, but I'm not sure
how noisy the SPEC ones are.
* More testing on powerpc. Decided that this really isn't a good target
to test on for 4.7 because of the poor choice of pressure classes.
SPEC CPU2006 INT results are reasonable-to-good, but the FP ones
suffer from the fact that we think there are twice as many registers
available for normal FP than there actually are. I'd like to fix this,
but all pressure-estimation bits of GCC suffer from the same problem,
and it's hard to justify as part of Linaro, because it doesn't
apply to ARM.
* Fixed upstream PR 50873 (ICE for NEON misaligned moves). Thanks to
Ramana for the heads-up and analysis.
* Retested and posted the patch for PR 48941 upstream (poor code generated
by the vzip*() and vunzp*() arm_neon.h functions).
Richard
== GDB ==
* Created and published Linaro GDB 7.3-2011.12 release.
* Updated Linaro GDB 7.3 to GDB 7.3.1 code base.
* Implemented support for single-stepping atomic operation
code sequences for ARM (and Thumb) (LP #892008). Checked
in to mainline and Linaro GDB.
* Ongoing work on remote support for "info proc" and core file
generation. Currently yet another solution for the remote
interface has been brought up in mailing list discussions
(support accessing arbitrary files on the remote side, not
just /proc). I'm working on prototyping this suggestion.
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards
Ulrich Weigand
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Hi Michael,
I have finally managed to complete the release process. It wasn't quite
as smooth as I would have liked, but we seem the have got there!
Notes:
- Ramana's VCVT patch caused an Android problem. This was reverted right
before the release.
- The initial release spin and test went without a hitch.
- There was an additional test failure in the GCC testsuite, but this
turns out to be because the snapshot date "20121201" happens to contain
the string "120". Interestingly, this will also be true for most of 2012.
- The ubutest runs seem to have a some problems: all of the glibc and
python builds have failed with a message about libgcc. Since this has
hit both 4.5 and 4.6 simultaneously I'm assuming it's environmental and
not caused by a new toolchain bug. The rest of the compilation appears fine.
- The benchmarking seems fine on A9, but I couldn't find results for the
others, although the scheduler lists the jobs.
- The upload to Launchpad was somewhat problematic. Uploading 4.5 took
two attempts. Uploading 4.6 failed about 6 times (at 20 minutes or so
each) before I tried from another machine with a faster uplink - that
went first time.
Andrew
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2011.12
release of both Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5.
Linaro GCC 4.6 2011.12 is the tenth release in the 4.6 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.6.2+svn181866, it contains a range of vectoriser
performance improvements and general bug fixes.
Interesting changes include:
* Updates to 4.6.2+svn181866
* Generic tuing support for Big-endian platforms.
* SLP support for operations with arbirary numbers of operands.
* SLP support for conditions.
* Pattern recognition support in basic-block SLP.
* Enhancements to mixed-size condition pattern recognition.
* Support for 64bit __sync* primitives on ARM.
* Unaligned block-move support for ARMv7.
* Added Cortex-A15 integer pipeline tuning.
Linaro GCC 4.5 2011.12 is the sixteenth release in the 4.5
series. Based off the latest GCC 4.5.3+svn181877, this is a
maintenance focused release.
Interesting changes in 4.5 include:
* Updates to 4.5.3+svn181877
The source tarballs are available from:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.6-2011.12https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.5-2011.12
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/4.6/4.6-2011.12https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.5/4.5-2011.12
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
Hi,
- fixed PR 51285
- continued looking at the alignment issue, ran Michael's script with
different options, tested Ramana's preliminary patch for vld1/vst1,
and my "don't peel for low loop bounds" patch
Ira
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the
release of Linaro QEMU 2011.12.
Linaro QEMU 2011.12 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:
- There are no Linaro-specific changes of note in this release
- This release is based on the upstream QEMU 1.0 release.
(Note that future qemu-linaro releases will continue to track
upstream trunk; the release dates for upstream and our
release just happened to be conveniently aligned in this case.)
Known issues:
- Graphics do not work for OMAP3 based models (beagle, overo)
with 11.10 Linaro images.
- This release of qemu-linaro is known not to work on ARM hosts.
(See bugs #883133, #883136)
The source tarball is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2011.12
More information on Linaro QEMU is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of
Linaro GDB 7.3.
Linaro GDB 7.3 2011.12 is the fourth release in the 7.3 series. Based off
the latest GDB 7.3.1, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and
enhancements.
This release contains:
* Update to GDB 7.3.1 code base
* Support single-stepping atomic operations (LDREX/STREX sequences)
The source tarball is available at:
https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/+milestone/7.3-2011.12
More information on Linaro GDB is available at:
https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro
