Hi TC working group,

                May I ask what the following means?

“724987: discourage use of NEON on the A8”

Thanks

Yves

From: linaro-dev-bounces@lists.linaro.org [mailto:linaro-dev-bounces@lists.linaro.org] On Behalf Of Mounir Bsaibes
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:52 PM
To: Linaro Dev
Subject: Minutes & Actions: Toolchain Working Group meeting of Feb 28 & Mar 02, 2011

Enclosed you'll find a link to the agenda, minutes and actions from the
Linaro toolchain working group weekly meetings of  Feb 28  & Mar  02, 2011. 

https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2011-02-28

https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2011-03-02


== Summary ==
 * Continuing on the GCC SMS performace improvement
 * Continuing on general GDB correctness
  * Now handles unwinding from inside kernel vector pages
  * Next is adding unwind information into GLIBC system calls
 * Decided to take over and upstream QEMU Versatile Express support.  Gives us a decent A9 board
 * First couple of optimised string routines are now in Ubuntu
 * Have approval for working on libunwind.  Beginning this work.
 * Investigating excessive memory usage when compiling QEMU on ARM (as opposed to targeting ARM)
 * Continuing with benchmarks.


Regards,
Mounir