== RCU priority boosting ==
* No progress this week due to travel and meetings
== Processes ==
* More Linaro TSC License processing
== Misc ==
* RCU patches for 2.6.39 merge window accepted into -tip
* Travel to Bangalore for upcoming TSC meeting (and lots of LTC meetings)
* Named program committee chair for Linux Plumbers Conference
== John Stultz <jstultz_vm> ==
=== Highlights ===
* Released first pass demo code of the kconfig fragments work, got some
decent feedback. Although opinion seems to be that upstream acceptance
is needed first (reasonably so), but that is likely to cause this
solution to the config work to be deferred into the next release.
* Got a panda board, and started work on bringing it up with the Linaro
Android kernel the android_omap4_defconfig.
* Published up a Linaro-Android 2.6.38 based tree:
http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/jstultz/android.git;a=summary
* My android talk got accepted at ELC.
* Got my RTC cleanups pending for 2.6.39 merged into -tip
=== Plans ===
* Sitting on a beach in Hawaii. Out of town most of next week. Should be
back on Friday
* Need to get the panda framebuffer working in the android kernel and
then publish the android_omap4_defconfig.
=== Issues ===
* May need some help prioritizing upstream push of kconfig changes vs
immediate need to help unify the current linaro board configs.
== Dave Martin <dmart> ==
=== Activity ===
==== hardware-n-kernel-standard-architecture ====
* Reposted gas adr instruction fixup workaround patch for
comment, with minor modifications as suggested by Nicolas
Pitre.
* Discussions around enabling kprobes for Thumb-2.
* Getting started on NEON/VFP registers in coredumps.
* Omap Thumb-2 patches now queued by Kevin Hilman for 2.6.39.
(git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux-
omap-pm.git for_2.6.39/pm-misc)
* Thumb-2 kernel building is now enabled for OMAP, after
adding -fno-optimize-sibling-calls as a workaround for the
module loading issue encountered last week.
* Received a Genesi Efika smartbook which I will use as a
target when working on imx51 Thumb-2 support when their
2.6.35 merge becomes available: should be a useful target,
since while the linaro imx51 kernel seems to be in a good
condition with regard to Thumb-2 compatibilty, it doesn't
have a full set of drivers or full power management support
yet -- which is where Thumb-2 issues are likely to arise.
==== miscellaneous ====
* Set up an mx51evk board in the linaro validation lab. The
linaro-m release is not mature enough and is not fully
usable, due a lack of network support etc, so upgrading to a
more recent linaro snapshots kernel was needed.
=== Plans ===
* Post an RFC proposal for adding the NEON/VFP state in
coredumps.
* Try and reflash U-Boot on the validation lab u8500 boards.
* Set up the remaining Freescale boards in validation lab.
* Write up the output from the Freescale i.MX BSP review
discussion, and post for comment.
=== Issues ===
* (none)
=== Absences ===
* Mon 2011-03-14 -- Fri 2011-03-16
== Device Tree ==
* Review and test mx51 dt patch v2 from Jason
* Sent out the preview version of patch set 'dynamically adding clk per dt nodes'
== Misc ==
* Test l-m-c and report issues
--
Regards,
Shawn
Out of town Monday, then out sick most of Thursday and Friday, so not a
whole lot got done.
== Posix Alarm Timers ==
* CLOCK_BOOTTIME patches were merged into -tip by tglx for 2.6.39
* LWN Article on alarm timers was published:
https://lwn.net/Articles/429925/
* Got some good discussion in the comments going.
== Config Work ==
* Created First pass Kconfig fragments for imx51, vexpress and omap3, as
well as a distro Kconfig.
* Working to minimize the difference between the kconfig fragments and
the current Linaro config files.
== Linaro Android Kernel ==
* Synced with Jesse about shipping a Panda board to me for testing with
the Android kernel. Should be on its way.
== Linaro Misc ==
* Attended linaro technical resources kick-off meeting.
== m-y ==
=== Highlights ===
* USB works out of the box in PIO mode on U8500 since v2.6.38-rc3
* Work on DMA support is in progress.
=== Plans ===
* Continue testing/debugging DMA for USB on U8500
* Investigate bug # 709245
Thanks,
--
Mian Yousaf Kaukab
== Kernel development ==
* (hopefully) last round of BKL removal patches
* bug hunting: macvtap, omap-serial, lo
* code review: SPEAr13xx PCIe, slack timers
== Flash devices ==
* Helped out a few flashbench users
* Measured various USB flash device
* Started discussions with a PHD student who wants to
write a new flash file system
