[ACTIVITY] week ending 22 July 2018

[Upstream]

Spent several days working with Alex and his docker testing bits. Reproduced the reported ppc32 test failure. Wrote a patch to implement the swapcontext syscall, which has now been merged.

Round 3 review of nanoMIPS submission.

Fixed a tricky issue wrt call-clobbered vector registers.

[VIRT-198 # QEMU: SVE Emulation Support ]

Some back and forth with Nils Meyer wrt SVE vs Grid. TODO: Let the SVE vector length be selectable from the command-line.

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