Thanks for the heads up Tixy. Adding Amit, Anmar and Usman.
On 16 May 2012 10:58, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) tixy@linaro.org wrote:
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 12.05 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 12.05 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 tree topic branches available for the last three kernel versions...
tracking-armlt-gator (3.4-rc7) 3.3-armlt-gator-5.10 3.2-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 doesn't already have Gator then you can add this topic now, or, leave it for the time being. (Some Android builds are using a separate Gator git repo in their manifest and this will continue to work for now.)
If anyone has any questions or if anything is unclear, please do hesitate to contact me.
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
-- Tixy
[1] Gator is the ARM target device components for ARM's Streamline Performance Analyzer which is part of their Developer Studio (DS-5). http://www.arm.com/products/tools/software-tools/ds-5/streamline.php
[2] http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=kernel/linux-linaro-tracking.git%3Ba=shortlog...
[3] git://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/arm/kernel.git
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