Enclosed you'll find a link to the agenda, minutes and actions from the
Linaro Toolchain working group weekly meetings of Feb 21, 2011.
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2011-02-21
== Summary ==
* FSF Copyright assignment is now in place
* GCC 4.6 build and test complete, pushed an updated to the bzr branch, the
branch is now up to mainline state as of the 12th.
* Submitted PR46178, PR46002 patches the first already approved and
committed.
* Tracked down the problem causing serial console to break: the new Linux
driver uses some extra features of the UART which we weren't modelling.
* Merged, reviewed and submitted many patches related to correctness.
* Investigating developer tools: looked into what people use, looked into
alternatives to ltrace as it has issues on many platforms. latrace looks
quite good on ARM.
* Implemented missing epoll syscalls for qemu usermode and submitted
upstream
* Identified root cause of GDB problems running on Versatile Express in SMP
mode, and verified that Errata workaround fixes the problem
* Finished testing GDB HW watchpoints patch on vexpress, submitted complete
patch set for mainline inclusion
* Will provide a patch to override some string routines in Ubuntu, and then
consider pushing elsewhere
* Looking at Versatile Express QEMU to get Linaro kernel booting
Regards,
Mounir
Enclosed you'll find a link to the agenda, minutes and actions from the
Linaro kernel working group weekly meeting of Feb 21, 2011.
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/KernelConsolidation/Meetings/2011-02-…
== Symmary ==
* Went over the bug list reviewed and discussed current bug list
* Opened the linaro-2.6.38 kernel and this should be the focus from now on,
as the release will be based on it.
* Arnd completed & published lwn.net article about Flash drive performance
* Refreshed the Linaro+Android kernel to include the latest from both the
linaro and android 2.6.37 based trees.
* Completed omap_hsmmc modification to utilize double buffering via the
pre-processing handler.
* Rebasing async mmc requests on top of 2.6.38-rc4 mmci (testing is not
done).
Regards,
Mounir
Enclosed you'll find a link to the agenda, notes and actions from the
Linaro Developer Platforms Weekly Status meeting held on February 23rd
in #linaro-meeting on irc.freenode.net at 16:00 UTC.
https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Foundations/2011-02-23
Actions from the meeting where as follows:
* tgall_foo and JamieBennett to get linaro-ubuntu building in Offspring
* ppearse to investigate how libtool does ldopen for GObject Introspection work
* slangasek, JamieBennett to shake the tree for developer image testing
I did not discover until this morning that Mootbot didn't capture the
entire log of the meeting
and I am quite sure a couple of actions have been lost as a result.
Please edit the
page is you know of an action that should be there.
Regards,
Tom (tgall_foo)
Developer Platforms Team
"We want great men who, when fortune frowns will not be discouraged."
- Colonel Henry Knox
w) tom.gall att linaro.org
w) tom_gall att vnet.ibm.com
h) tom_gall att mac.com
Hi there
flash-kernel is this place where we add support for a lot of weird
boards of various architectures. "flash-kernel" because it used to
just write a kernel to Flash memory, but that's not always true
anymore. Because it's integrated in d-i and with initramfs-tools /
linux packages, it is the easiest way to add support for one new board.
But flash-kernel isn't in the happiest state right now, as new boards
were added by copy-pasting the installation logic of other boards over
and over. Also, Ubuntu added more and more boards and features to its
flash-kernel package, and the delta is really big now (I will take part
of the blame for allowing this to happen).
In the light of this situation, and because I think Debian and
derivatives will support more and more boards via flash-kernel in the
future (for instance modern ARM boards in the armel/armhf ports), I'm
interested in improving flash-kernel's code, architecture and
scalability (in fact, I started working on it [1]).
I'm at the Emdebian sprint in Cambridge this week and I wanted to
pursue work on flash-kernel this week, but a lot of people here would
like to have a discussion on this work, and other people seem to be
interested in solving the same problems in flash-kernel. So in the
interest of avoiding work duplication and in the hope to come up with a
good roadmap and target architecture for flash-kernel, I'll be hosting
a discussion on flash-kernel development tomorrow morning at 11am UK
time. (Sorry for the late notice!) If you're interested in
flash-kernel, if you have ideas, patches, etc. consider dialing in! Of
course, email works too. I'll work on a wiki page summarizing
tomorrow's discussion and the plans around flash-kernel.
Dial-in details:
Access code: 52386 86884#
UK Local +44 207 630 2405
UK Freephone 0800 026 0166
US Local +1 781 761 9450
US Toll Free 1 866 352 2709
Brazil 0800 881 0038
Canada 1 866 352 2710
Finland 800 523 103
France 0 805 980 044
Germany 800 589 0993
New Zealand 800 452 290
Taiwan 0800 265 855
China (North) 10 800 152 1873
China (South) 10 800 852 1873
India 000 800 100 7944
Poland 800 331 1398
Anybody is welcome to dial-in. I'd welcome if you would notify me of
your presence so that we can expect you on the call. We'll be using
#emdebian as back-channel.
Cheers,
[1] branch at http://git.debian.org/?p=users/lool/d-i/flash-kernel.git
* adds a testsuite
* consolidates code into functions
* moves board support data into a database (currently inline for
convenience of testing, but will be split out in its own file)
--
Loïc Minier
Good evening,
First post on this list so I apologize in advance if I post on the wrong
list.
I am desperately looking for a working thumb-2 kernel tree. I am
currently using the dirty/arm/omap-thumb2+merged branch from
git://git.linaro.org/people/dmart/linux-2.6-arm.git repo,
since it is the only one that compiles for me. However, to my
understanding, this is not a very 'safe' branch to use on daily basis.
Is that true? Is there a more 'stable' git branch which I can compile as
thumb-2 and use it for my projects. I keep searching online for
kernel+thumb2 references and most of them point to this linaro git tree.
Regards,
--
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
Hi All,
The minutes of the power management weekly call can be found at :
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/PowerManagement/Meetings/2011-02-23
Highlights: Creation of a feature matrix to easily allow outsiders to
tell what we've been upto (It is still being populated after testing
with hwpacks)
Regards,
Amit
Hi,
The weekly Linaro Release Meeting will be held at 17:00 UTC today. The
agenda for the meeting can be found at:
https://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/WeeklyReleaseMeeting/2011-02-24
and previous action items were:
* JamieBennett to email LT to test s5pv310
* lool to ping Marex to enquire about support for Efika netbook support in
uboot for this cycle
* slangasek to file rt for syncing nano image to snapshots and stop
headless syncing
* slangasek to raise the issue with debian-policy on whether or not we
need e2fsprogs as Essential
If you have points to raise or bugs that need to be discussed please add
them to the wiki page above.
Regards,
Jamie.
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Linaro Release Manager | Platform Project Manager