Hi there
A few questions--
a) Is the omission of the "Developers and Community Builds" links from
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ intentional? This is a concern,
because these links contain the _only_ deliverables for certain
platform and filesystem combinations. The wiki release page itself is
not easily findable without going to the wiki.
b) The release page on the wiki contains important information like
the list of known issues. Shouldn't this page be linked from
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ or some other prominent location? I
don't see how to get to it at present. A visitor won't know that they
have to go to the wiki for this information.
c) The known issues list on the wiki release page doesn't seem include
all the issues reported during testing. Will these get propagated, or
is it the responsibility of testers to add the relevant information to
the known issues list themselves?
d) For vexpress specifically, there is no link from the release pages
or downloads to the specific installation instructions applicable to
this board. Even I find these difficult to find without bookmarking.
Because that information is very board-specific, I don't think it
needs to be included on
https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation
-- but can we at least have a link on there pointing to the
appropriate page?
Cheers
---Dave
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Fathi Boudra <fathi.boudra(a)linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Linaro Team is pleased to announce the release of Linaro 11.08.
>
> 11.08 is the Linaro’s third release delivered on the new monthly cadence.
> Once again, this release includes components delivered by all Working Groups,
> Landing Teams and Platform Teams, bringing the best of Linaro Technology
> integrated on top of Android and Ubuntu based images.
>
> In total this makes an impressive thirty components and two platform builds
> from all Linaro engineering teams in one shot. And again, most of this comes
> nicely integrated into Android and Ubuntu platform builds. This release made
> it again hard to select a handful of highlights from a list of roughly
> 80 deliverables that went into this release.
>
> However, if we had to choose we would like to emphasize the update of
> linux-linaro to the 3.0.3 stable kernel including the merge of 3.1-rc1 core ARM
> updates, Linaro GCC 4.6 2011.08 release based on latest upstream version, and
> Linaro Cross Toolchain 2011.07 builds. In addition, the Android Team delivers
> the enablement of all of our primary boards, compiled with the Linaro 11.08
> toolchain release based on GCC 4.6 and running Android 2.3.5.
>
> We encourage everybody to use the 11.08 release. The download links for all
> images and components are available on our release page:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1108/Release
>
> See the detailed highlights of this release to get a better overview of what
> was done by the individual teams. The release details are linked from
> the "Details" column for each release artifact on the release information:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1108/Release#Release_Information
>
> Using the Android-based images
> ==============================
>
> The Android-based images come in three parts: system, userdata and boot.
> These need to be combined to form a complete Android install. For an
> explanation of how to do this please see:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/ImageInstallation
>
> If you are interested in getting the source and building these images
> yourself please see the following pages:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/GetSource
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/BuildSource
>
> Using the Ubuntu-based images
> =============================
>
> The Ubuntu-based images consist of two parts. The first part is a hardware
> pack, which can be found under the hwpacks directory and contains hardware
> specific packages (such as the kernel and bootloader). The second part is
> the rootfs, which is combined with the hardware pack to create a complete
> image. For more information on how to create an image please see:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation
>
> Getting involved
> ================
>
> More information on Linaro can be found on our websites:
>
> * Homepage: http://www.linaro.org
> * Wiki: http://wiki.linaro.org
>
> Also subscribe to the important Linaro mailing lists and join our IRC
> channels to stay on top of Linaro developments:
>
> * Announcements:
> http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-announce
> * Development:
> http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
> * IRC:
> #linaro on irc.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net
> #linaro-android irc.linaro.org or irc.freenode.net
>
> Known issues with this release
> ==============================
>
> For any errata issues, please see:
>
> http://wiki.linaro.org/Cycles/1108/Release#Known_Issues
>
> Bug reports for this release should be filed in Launchpad against the
> individual packages that are affected. If a suitable package cannot be
> identified, feel free to assign them to:
>
> http://www.launchpad.net/linaro
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Fathi Boudra, on behalf of the Release Team
> Linaro Release Manager | Platform Project Manager
> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs
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Steve,
I'd like you to meet Jim who did the initial hardfloat work. This
email contains the results that Jim produced.
I believe that the conclusion was that skia and webkit may benefit,
but that such benefits would impose an undue burden on Android's
distribution model which tries to create libs that can run on as many
architectures as possible.
-Zach
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jim Huang <jserv(a)0xlab.org>
Date: 7 August 2011 18:01
Subject: Re: Would you send me your hard float experiment results you
presented in Budapest?
To: Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfeffer(a)linaro.org>
2011/8/7 Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfeffer(a)linaro.org>:
> Jim,
>
> Thanks. Would it be possible to post them by the end of the day?
skia ->
Switch from VFP back to fixed scalar based calculation
Previous configuration enabled ARM VFP for scalar float, but VFP on
ARM11 is not as powerful as VFPv3 or NEON.
Reference benchmark:
Item Fixed based VFP-based
------------ ----------- ---------
Draw Canvas 58.37 fps 58.40 fps
Draw Circle 37.48 fps 22.93 fps
Draw Circle2 17.14 fps 18.31 fps
Draw Rect 17.62 fps 20.69 fps
Draw Arc 24.79 fps 27.45 fps
Draw Image 19.08 fps 18.73 fps
Draw Text 29.22 fps 25.79 fps
>
> Also, have you sync'd up with Mike? He wants to negotiate on your contract.
I sent mail to Mike already. I don't know how to proceed.
Thanks,
-jserv
Now that we have an Android build for every board and Gerrit and LAVA
I'd like to unify how we handle kernels for each so that we can work
more efficiently, start to unify the kernels and provide a means for
external Android users to start to improve these trees.
First, since we control the kernels that go into our Android builds
I'd like to follow AOSP convention and have:
kernel/common.git (john's tree)
kernel/imx53.git
kernel/omap.git
kernel/origen.git
kernel/snowball.git
(right now we have:
panda, beagle
<remote name="linaro-other" fetch="git://git.linaro.org/"/>
<project path="kernel" name="people/jstultz/android"
revision="linaro-android-3.0" remote="linaro-other"/>
panda-leb
<remote name="linaro-other" fetch="git://git.linaro.org/"/>
<project path="kernel" name="people/andygreen/kernel-tilt"
revision="tilt-jstultz-linaro-android-3.0" remote="linaro-other"/>
leb-snowball
<remote name="linaro-other" fetch="git://git.linaro.org/"/>
<project path="kernel" name="bsp/st-ericsson/linux-3.0-android-ux500"
revision="master" remote="linaro-other"/>
leb-origen
<remote name="linaro-other" fetch="git://git.linaro.org/"/>
<project path="kernel" name="people/angus/linux-linaro-3.0"
remote="linaro-other" revision="android"/>
leb-imx53
<remote fetch="git://git.linaro.org/" name="linaro-other"/>
<project name="people/bernhardrosenkranzer/android-kernel-iMX53"
path="kernel" remote="linaro-other"
revision="3d981d9418c53e3e1a079582088121c641588791"/>
)
I'd like these to be at git://android.git.linaro.org/. I'd like to not mirror.
Each tree would accept patches via Gerrit and be maintainable through
standard git by the tree maintainers. This should allow upgrades to
each, without needing to push all the upgrade patches through Gerrit.
Next, we'd like to point to a tip branch for each of these trees. This
branch would be were development would be happening. Tracking tip is
fundamental to continuous integration, if its broken then the primary
job of everyone should be getting it going again. I'd like to suggest
the branches be named the same and follow John's branch naming
convention:
linaro-android-3.0...etc
Lastly, I'd like to request (and we may be able to automate this once
all the kernels are co-located) that once a pinned-manifest.xml comes
out, referencing a specific sha1, I'd like to lay a tag on that sha so
it sticks around. Its better to tag after the fact because it saves
having to do another build/test/qa cycle and will ensure that our
pinned-manifest.xml continue to work.
I suspect a few growing pains, but I think this is going to be great.
Once the kernels are co-located we should be able to look at Gerrit
extensions that allow easier upstream patch submission and tracking.
We should also be able to more easily refactor things. Using the
Gerrit flow and extending it to support Android upstreaming is exactly
the thing Linaro was built for. Since Gerrit is such an integral part
of Android development, extensions to allow patch propagation would
allow a lot of the good work to flow back into the mainline kernel.
-Zach
Patch 1: It fixes the incorrect card detection type.
Patch 2: It enables secondary MMC port.
Patch 3: It extends support of 8-bit bus width
The patches are rebased to for-next branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kgene/linux-samsung.git
Tushar Behera (3):
ARM: EXYNOS4: Fix sdhci card detection for ORIGEN
ARM: EXYNOS4: Add support for secondary MMC port on ORIGEN
ARM: EXYNOS4: Add support for 8-bit bus width in SDHCI for ORIGEN
arch/arm/mach-exynos4/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm/mach-exynos4/mach-origen.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--
1.7.4.1
Hi all,
Say has anyone else run oprofile on recent builds on panda?
By recent I mean say anything since 11.07? Reason for asking is I'm
seeing basically a very very small number of samples being recorded...
as in there's no way this is right.
Log:
root@linaro-desktop:/home/linaro/ltj-1.1.90-d# opcontrol --reset
Signalling daemon... done
root@linaro-desktop:/home/linaro/ltj-1.1.90-d# opcontrol --start
Profiler running.
root@linaro-desktop:/home/linaro/ltj-1.1.90-d# ./djpeg
~linaro/Saturn.jpg > /dev/null
Decoding took 1216 ms
root@linaro-desktop:/home/linaro/ltj-1.1.90-d# ./djpeg
~linaro/Saturn.jpg > /dev/null
Decoding took 1206 ms
root@linaro-desktop:/home/linaro/ltj-1.1.90-d#
root@linaro-desktop:/home/linaro/ltj-1.1.90-d# ./djpeg
~linaro/Saturn.jpg > /dev/null
Decoding took 1207 ms
root@linaro-desktop:/home/linaro/ltj-1.1.90-d# ./djpeg
~linaro/Saturn.jpg > /dev/null
Decoding took 1212 ms
root@linaro-desktop:/home/linaro/ltj-1.1.90-d# opcontrol --stop
Stopping profiling.
root@linaro-desktop:/home/linaro/ltj-1.1.90-d# opreport -l ./djpeg
Overflow stats not available
CPU: CPU with timer interrupt, speed 0 MHz (estimated)
Profiling through timer interrupt
samples % symbol name
1 100.000 put_pixel_rows
I'll pull the latest and retry still, this I think is the11.07
ubuntu-desktop LEB release for panda (or pretty close)
uname -a
Linux linaro-desktop 3.0.0-1001-linaro-omap #1~ppa~natty-Ubuntu SMP
PREEMPT Mon Jul 25 22:44:36 UTC 2011 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
Thanks!
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Tom
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https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/MX53QuickStart
Sorry guys, although been pushed and pinged several times by various people
we are finally able to come up with a preliminary starting page for i.MX53
QuickStart board. It's currently very simple, and hopefully we'll get it
more detailed in the future.
Feedback is welcome!
Thanks
- eric