The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release
of Linaro GDB 7.2.
Linaro GDB 7.2 2011.02-0 is the third release in the 7.2 series. Based
off the latest GDB 7.2, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes
and enhancements.
Interesting changes include:
* Backtracing is more reliable through using the ARM specific
exception tables for unwinding
* Better supports debugging functions compiled with GCC's -fstack-protector
* Multiple testsuite related fixes
The source tarball is available at:
https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro/+milestone/7.2-2011.02-0
More information on Linaro GDB is available at:
https://launchpad.net/gdb-linaro
-- Michael
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release
of both Linaro GCC 4.4 and Linaro GCC 4.5.
Linaro GCC 4.5 is the seventh release in the 4.5 series. Based off the
latest GCC 4.5.2, it includes many ARM-focused performance
improvements and bug fixes.
Interesting changes include:
* Improved code generation in the __sync primitives
* Better modelling of the Cortex-A9 NEON pipeline
* Added a performance improvement that converts a tree of ifs into a switchs
* Many bug fixes
Linaro GCC 4.4 is the seventh release in the 4.4 series. Based off the
latest GCC 4.4.5, it is a maintenance release that fixes one fault
found with offsets on NEON loads.
The source tarballs are available from:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.5-2011.02-0https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+milestone/4.4-2011.02-0
Downloads are available from the Linaro GCC page on Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro
-- Michael
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release
of Linaro QEMU 2011.02-0.
Linaro QEMU 2011.02-0 is the first official release of qemu-linaro. Based
off upstream qemu, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and
enhancements.
- This initial qemu-linaro release includes all the ARM code generation
fixes from the qemu-meego tree; these are mainly Neon related
- The OMAP3 support from qemu-meego is also included
- Various bugs which prevented newer Linaro snapshots from booting
on the beagle model have been fixed
- Bugs causing linaro-media-create to print warnings about unimplemented
syscalls and ioctls have been fixed
Known issues:
- There is no support for USB keyboard or mouse, so only a serial console
is usable (#708703)
- Images built with linaro-media-create's --swap_file option will not
boot (#713101)
The source tarball is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+milestone/2011.02
Binary builds of this qemu-linaro release are available for users of
Ubuntu. Natty users can find qemu-linaro 2011.02-0 in the Ubuntu archive.
Users of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 10.10 can find packages in the
linaro-maintainers tools ppa:
https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/tools/
More information on Linaro QEMU is available at:
https://launchpad.net/qemu-linaro
