[ACTIVITY] report week 46

[Peter Maydell]

RAG:
Red:
Amber:
Green:

Milestones:
                             | Planned    | Estimate   | Actual     |
finish virtio-system         | 2010-08-27 | postponed  |            |
get valgrind into linaro PPA | 2010-09-15 | 2010-09-28 | 2010-09-28 |
complete a qemu-maemo update | 2010-09-24 | 2010-09-22 | 2010-09-22 |
finish testing PCI  patches  | 2010-10-01 | 2010-10-22 | 2010-10-18 |

Progress:
 * Most of this week spent at the Meego conference in Dublin.
   This seemed to be a rather apps-developer centric conf,
   with not much of interest on the low-level side. There were
   a few useful talks/conversations, though.
 * Intel were giving away Atom-based netbooks to all attendees;
   that's a lot of developers who are going to be testing and
   optimising their apps for Atom devices rather than ARM...
 * qemu: looked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668799 ;
   we don't seem to be taking the right lock before we manipulate
   the graph of translation blocks. I have a fix which stops the
   reported segfault, but the code has a number of "XXX not thread
   safe" and "FIXME: not SMP safe" comments and generally doesn't
   seem to have a coherent locking design :-(
 * qemu: sent some minor patches upstream:
    + enable iwmmxt coprocessors in user mode
    + remove some unused functions from target-arm and target-sparc
    + fix a failure to build bug in a makefile
 * qemu: some review of a patch to fix semihosting SYS_GET_CMDLINE

Plans
 - qemu consolidation
 - post-toolchain-review, sort out some milestones for
   this report

Absences: (complete to end of 2010)
Thu/Fri 25-26 Nov; Fri 17 Dec - Tue 4 Jan inclusive.
(Dallas Linaro sprint 9-15 Jan.)