Hello All
ARM have released a new version of Developer Studio 5 (DS-5) and we now have a new version of the Gator component [1] to go with this which needs updating in all Linaro kernel trees that will be part of the 12.08 release.
For those people maintaining kernel trees here is what this means...
- If your kernels are including the linux-linaro-core-tracking [2] branch then you will get the new Gator version from this when it is updated over the next couple of days. You don't need to do anything except to make sure you are up to date with this branch before the 12.08 release.
- For Ubuntu kernels not including linux-linaro-core-tracking (and not being released from the common linux-linaro branch) then you should replace your existing Gator topic branch (or add one if it is missing). This new topic branch can be created by pulling from the ARM Landing Team's tree [3], we have three topic branches available for the last three kernel versions...
tracking-armlt-gator (3.6-rc1) 3.5-armlt-gator-5.10 3.4-armlt-gator-5.10
The code in these branches is identical, they are just rebased onto different Linux versions to make pulling easier.
- For Android kernels, if your kernel already includes the Gator topic, then this should be updated as above. If it does not have the Gator topic then chance are it is being included as a separate component in the manifest file; in which case, there is nothing further which needs doing as the git repo used for this has already been updated [4].
If anyone has any questions or if anything is unclear, please do hesitate to contact me.
Note, for those people who have applied Mali driver patches to support profiling by Gator: you don't need to modify those Mali patches, just take the new version of Gator, this will still work OK.
Cheers