[ACTIVITY] report week 28

[Peter Maydell]

RAG:
Red:
Amber: OMAP3 patch upstreaming is slower progress than hoped
Green: various outstanding patches accepted upstream in time for 0.15

Current Milestones:
||                          || Planned    || Estimate   || Actual     ||
||qemu-linaro-2011-07       || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 || 2011-07-21 ||

Historical Milestones:
||qemu-linaro 2011-04       || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 || 2011-04-21 ||
||qemu-linaro 2011-05       || 2011-05-19 || 2011-05-19 || n/a        ||
||close out 1105 blueprints || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-19 ||
||complete 1111 planning    || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-28 || 2011-05-27 ||
||qemu-linaro-2011-06       || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 || 2011-06-16 ||

 == linaro-qemu-11.11 ==
 * tracking down a problem with very recent beagle snapshots not booting
   in qemu; this turns out to be an x-loader bug (LP:813407)
 * made the release
 == other ==
 * upstream are planning to branch for 0.15 release today
 * most of the outstanding ARM patches have now been pulled
 * reviewed a patch adding ARM1176 support
 * wrote a patch fixing the feature flags for ARM1136r1 so it includes
   the TLS registers (needed as newer kernels now try to use them)
 * submitted some patches fixing a few VFP UNDEF/UNPREDICTABLE cases so
   they don't crash qemu
 * submitted patch to make v6 cp15 barrier insns work in linux-user mode
 * looked at a reported problem where linux kernel versions 2.6.39+
   display graphics wrongly. This turns out to be that 2.6.39 (or 38)
   changed (inadvertently?) from programming the versatilepb CLCD as
   RGB565 to setting it to BGR565; qemu wasn't implementing the latter.
   Dusted off some PL111 support patches, added the mux control support
   for PL110 and submitted them.

Current qemu patch status is tracked here:
https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus

Absences:
1-5 August: Linaro sprint 1111
15-19 August: KVM Forum and LinuxCon NA, Vancouver