Enclosed please find the link to the Weekly Status report & meeting minutes
for the Toolchain working group for the week ending 2012-02-03
== Weekly Status Report ==
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Status/2012-02-02
== Meeting Minutes ==
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2012-02-02
== Weekly Activity report ==
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/ActivityReports/2012-01-27
== Summary ==
(For details, see the Weekly Status Report, Meeting Minutes and Weekly Activity reports)
* Roadmap / Connect
* Completed End of quarter 2011Q4 reports
* Set the sessions for Connect
* Plan for 2012Q1 https://wiki.linaro.org/MichaelHope/Sandbox/Q1.12Plans
* 64-bit
* Submitted work on 64-bit shift in core registers patches upstream, awaiting review.
* libunwind
* Reviewed a patch from T. R. of Nokia who provided a bugfix in case unwind instructions are popping VFP registers
* OpenEmbedded
* Changed Qt build to respect the optimization flags
* Wrote a script around QEMU to measure the memory footprint using
named pipes to communicate with the serial console of the guest
* GDB
* Committed follow-on patch to fix cosmetic issues resulting from the remote "info proc" patch set.
* GCC
* Created 4.6 backport branch including subreg forward- propagation branch,
the modes-tieable patch, and the combine.c regression fix, and evaluated
for correctness and performance.
* Investigated Ramana's vld1 patches, and a problem with excessive vmov's
in the PR 51819 test case pointed out by Ramana.
* QEMU
* Wrote patches for the A15 Fast Models boot-wrapper that allow you
to pass the kernel/initrd/kernel command line via a parameter to
the model rather than having to hard code them into an ELF file
along with the boot-wrapper.
* target-arm/arm-devs queues pushed upstream [Calxeda Highbank model is now in upstream QEMU]
* KVM
* Sorted out a Debian fs to use for KVM guest : this is needed because
the kernel module doesn't do Thumb or VFP yet.
* Wrote wiki pages on how to reproduce the KVM prototype https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/KVM/HowTo
* Upstream patch review, many complicated things landing
* Reviewed KVM ARM patches from Christoffer
* Benchmarking
* Continued benchmarking gcc-4.7 against gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.01 and
gcc-4.6 with -o2 and -o3 variants, both with neon enabled.
Best regards,
Mounir
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