linaro-toolchain November 2011

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by Ira Rosen

Hi, - SLP improvements for weight-h264-pixels16x16-8 (libav): - conditions in SLP - committed upstream - support pattern detection in SLP - implemented - enhance mixed condition pattern to handle non-constant then/else clauses - implemented weight-h264-pixels16x16-8 now gets vectorized with 2.6x speedup. - Vectorizer maintenance (bug fixes, patch reviews). I'll be on vacation on Sunday. Ira

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FW: contribution Linux Kernel Debugger

by Marc TITINGER

Hi there, As discussed with Loïc, please find attached my slides to the ELCE presentation related to our implementation of linux-awareness for JTAG debugging. I still need a formal clearance of my organization on my contribution patch, but I (and my managers) will be happy to see some or all of this work benefit to-and-from the community. If you are interested, I will try to upload a self-contained qemu-based demo to a public ftp. Cheers, Marc Titinger. > -----Original Message----- > From: Loïc Minier [mailto:lool@dooz.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 3:19 PM > To: Marc TITINGER > Cc: Michael Hope; Ulrich Weigand > Subject: Re: contribution Linux Kernel Debugger > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2011, Marc TITINGER wrote: > > J'ai été content de vous rencontrer toi et Nicolas à la suite de ma > > présentation pour discuter de l'opportunité de la contribution de > > notre debugger linux. J'ai une question: dans la mesure ou STMicro ne > > fait pas partie des membres de linaro, aurais-je un accès restreint > > aux outils et discussions si je souhaite contribuer? Quels serons les > > blueprints correspondant à ce projet ? > > Most things Linaro does are public; concerning the toolchain, > benchmarks are kept private due to licensing constraints. Even if > STMicro is not a member, you're welcome to present your ideas and code > to us (we don't mind if STMicro joins as a member though ;-). > > We covered topics similar to your ELC-Europe talk this week: > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-misc/+spec/linaro- > toolchain-kernel-debugging > > Ulrich Weigand and Michael Hope will continue discussions around where > we will go in terms of helping kernel debugging next cycle, it might > be > that we end up working on similar areas than the ones you and I > discussed (special handling for linux in GDB -- tasks, backtracing > across kernelspace/userspace; OpenOCD fixes...). > > Your slides don't seem to be at > https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference- > europe/titinger > yet, so perhaps you could share a link with Michael and Ulrich? or > post on the linaro-toolchain@ mailing-list > > We'll be a bit busy this week, but if you want to discuss your > patches, > upstreaming, further developments, I would think Michael can arrange > for you to join a Toolchain WG call in the next weeks -- Michael, I'll > let you comment once you get to see the slides :-) > > -- > Loïc Minier

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[ACTIVITY] WW43

by Zhenqiang Chen

Summary: * Add zlib and libiconv support in crosstool-ng and repack embedded toolchain source package. Details: * Read crosstool-ng scripts, configs and document to learn on how it works. * Try mkedwards's extensions for crosstool-ng at https://github.com/mkedwards/crosstool-ng. It does have lots of extensions, the GDB-cross can build. But zlib and libiconv do not meet our requirement. * Add config, patch and build scripts for zlib and update the binutils build scripts to use the prebuilt zlib. * Add config and build scripts for libiconv and update the build scripts of gcc and gdb. * Write scripts to patch and repack embedded toolchain source packages to the standard format. Plans: * Linaro connect: Oct. 31 - Nov. 4. * Integrate the repack scripts with crosstool-ng. Thanks! -Zhenqiang

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[ACTIVITY] report week 44

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||upstream-omap3-cleanup || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || || Historical Milestones: ||add-omap3-networking || 2011-10-13 || 2011-10-13 || 2011-10-13 || ||a15-systemmode-planning || 2011-10-13 || 2011-10-13 || 2011-09-22 || ||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || 2011-10-27 || == other == * Linaro Connect week. Included an extremely useful double-length session about KVM on A15, which should turn into blueprints/plans in due course * Found out a bit more about UEFI -- I'm leaning towards having QEMU for vexpress run UEFI by default as a way of letting you just pass it a disk image rather than having to feed it a separatekernel/initrd. (Will look into this more when the ARM landing team have it all building and working on hardware.) * I have a working prototype of the QEMU virtio-mmio transport (written to Pawel's spec). However to get this upstream we will first need to properly refactor the qemu virtio code so the link between the transport and the blk/net/etc backends is a qdev bus. -- PMM

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Revital Eres

Continue working on the regsiter pressure estimation implementation - testing the implementation on libav micro benchmarks. With the patch some SMSed kernels in put-h264-qpel8-hv-lowpass-8, swscale-rgb24ToY_c mjpegenc benchmarks are identified as having register pressure. I'm looking at the kernels which still have regressions with SMS and it seems the reason is not related to register pressure.

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Video - Toolchain support for kernel debugging

by Michael Opdenacker

Hi Ulrich, Here's a video of your session about kernel debugging: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lIz0W3l2E8 Thanks, Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker - Community Manager Linaro, http://linaro.org Phone: +33 484 253 396 IRC: 'opm' in #linaro on irc.freenode.net

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LAVA recipe

by Andrew Stubbs

Hi All, This is a brain dump of what I learned about running LAVA today. Dave will probably find a place for this in the Validation wiki, but I'll pass it round in the meantime. Hope it helps Andrew

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[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * libunwind * posted small bug fixes * noticed the unwinding on Android is broken somehow (need to track down the commit that broke it) * linaro android * repo sync fails due invalid bionic commit id (#885792) * tried to remotely attend the Connect * +1 for having live streams of the plenaries (http://video.ubuntu.com/live/) * -1 for pointing us to the wrong grand sierra irc channels (http://uds.ubuntu.com/participate/remote) * icecast streams worked most of the time (* public holiday on tuesday) Regards Ken

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[ACTIVITY] 2011-11-04

by David Gilbert

=== 64 bit atomics * I got the race in membase down to a futex issue, and asking dmart pointed me at a kernel bug that affects recent kernels where a fix had gone in about a month ago. That was a nasty one! * I've still got a few bugs left; most are turning out to be timing races in the test code (e.g. one that times out after 2seconds but the code takes around 1.7 seconds ish - but if something else gets in trips over the line, and another one where it did a recv_from on a socket but only got the start of a message, presumably because the sender had used multiple sends). It's tricky going because the tests are a combination of most scripting languages (perl, python, ruby with a splash of Erlang). I've so far found no bugs in the atomic code. * I looked at apr and SDL-1.3; both of which use atomics; but end up not using 64bit atomics; the tendency is for them to ensure they can do atomics on long and on a void*; both of which for us are 32bit. === String routines * I've got the Newlib A15 optimised memcpy running in a test harness at the moment for comparison. === Listening to connect * I listened in to a few connect sessions each day; the 1st day or so was 3/4 lost on audio systems that didn't work (I'm especially annoyed at not being able to hear the QEMU for A15/KVM session and toolchain support for kernel). The Rypple session was rather lost through the lack of any screen share or slides.

14 years

Linaro Cross Compiling

by Lalancette, Christopher

Hello all, I've been playing around with linaro and have it working on my Pandaboard locally. I have a couple of questions about the linaro environment; if this is the wrong forum, I'm happy to take it elsewhere. I see that Linaro makes monthly releases of the hwpacks and images. How are the packages/binaries in those images created? Are they cross-compiled, or compiled natively on the target platform? If they are cross-compiled, how is the environment created? The reason I ask is that we've been looking at cross-compiling some packages ourselves, and have been running into issues. So we were wondering what toolchain the linaro community uses. Thanks in advance, -- Chris Lalancette

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linaro-toolchain November 2011