== Dave Martin <dmart> ==
=== General Activity === * Some kernel patch work:
* CPU info declaration macros -- No dissent upstream. These patches are now sitting in Will Deacon's tree waiting for him to send a pull request to Russell.
* Will Deacon's Generic MMU off code -- helped fix an off- by-one type bug which was preventing the temporary stack's identity mapping from being installed properly.
* More activity on minor bugs in gas:
* http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12931 (ARM: gas fails to set the proper alignment on code sections, causing broken output)
This is the issue which is contributing to the WebM codec failures in Firefox on ARM.
Simple workaround proposed and merged upstream.
* http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12848 (ARM: Thumb-2: Range check on b.w is off by a factor of 2)
This issue is actually affecting virtually all branches in Thumb, including BL.
Tidy-up/fix proposed upstream.
=== linaro-kernel-o-standard-arch ===
* Started an experimental merge of Catalin Marinas' LPAE (ARM Large Physical Address Extension) patches with linux- linaro-2.6.39.
I now have a booting kernel on the ARM VExpress-CA15x4 model making use of physical memory beyond 4GB, but still having problems with SMP (probably a separate issue from LPAE / A15 support).
=== Plans === * Check whether the new kernel trees work in Thumb-2 on mx51evk and follow up with Freescale landing team.
* Try merging the basic A15 / VExpress new memory map support from the AEL tree with linux-linaro-2.6.39 (i.e., no LPAE sup- port). These are likely to merge upstream sooner than LPAE, and may make sense in the linaro tree.
* Follow up on Cortex-A15 FPGA platform availability.
* Suggest we disable aligment fixups for linaro images, since gtk-sharp2 is now the only thing known to be affected.