[ACTIVITY] report week 04

[Peter Maydell]

RAG:
Red:
Amber:
Green:

Current Milestones:
||                          || Planned    || Estimate   || Actual     ||
||cp15-rework               || 2012-01-06 || 2012-02-20 ||            ||
||qemu-kvm-getting-started  || 2012-03-04?|| 2012-03-04?||            ||
(for blueprint definitions: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuKVM)

Historical Milestones:
||a15-usermode-support      || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || 2011-10-27 ||
||upstream-omap3-cleanup    || 2011-11-10 || 2011-12-15 || 2011-12-12 ||
||initial-a15-system-model  || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-17 ||

 == cp15-rework ==
  * discussions with Rusty
 == qemu-kvm-getting-started ==
  * wrote patches for the A15 Fast Models boot-wrapper that allow you
    to pass the kernel/initrd/kernel command line via a parameter to
    the model rather than having to hard code them into an ELF file
    along with the boot-wrapper. This should make life a lot easier for
    the validation folk.
  * various discussions with validation/etc about what you can and
    can't do with a model and what the best setup is going to be
  * sorted out a Debian fs to use for KVM guest : this is needed because
    the kernel module doesn't do Thumb or VFP yet.
  * started on rearranging and improving the writeup/HOWTO on the wiki
 == other ==
  * target-arm/arm-devs queues pushed upstream [Calxeda Highbank model
    is now in upstream QEMU]
  * helping Will Deacon track down what looks like a race condition in
    Linux's handling of VFP on SMP where signal handlers are involved
  * a QEMU Object Model patch series has landed upstream -- this will
    be a nasty rebase for qemu-linaro next week I think