linaro-toolchain January 2012

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uImage built with pre-built linaro toolchain failed to start

by Lv Terry-R65388

Hi, I use pre-built version of linaro toolchain (got from http://people.linaro.org/~michaelh/incoming/binaries/) to build a uImage. The build succeeded, but the uImage couldn't start. The console hangs at: Using FEC0 device TFTP from server 10.193.100.158; our IP address is 10.193.102.233 Filename 'uImage_linaro'. Load address: 0x70800000 Loading: ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ####################### done Bytes transferred = 3193292 (30b9cc hex) ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 70800000 ... Image Name: Linux-2.6.38-01026-gc9c8ead Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 3193228 Bytes = 3 MB Load Address: 10008000 Entry Point: 10008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Loading Kernel Image ... OK OK Starting kernel ... Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. Does anyone meet this before? How can I fix it? Thanks~~ Yours Terry

12 years, 3 months

[ACTIVITY] w02

by Asa Sandahl

* Started with some day-to-day activities in the team. Looking after the proposals and the cbuild scheduler. Will start Created problem log for scheduler problems, there is a link to it from the jobs page. https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/SchedulerProblems * Worked on producing graphs for benchmark results using matplotlib. Michael: Would it be ok to put my script in linaro-toolchain-benchmarks/scripts? * Kicked off some benchmarks with gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.01. To start with coremark, eembc, denbench, pybench and spec2000. We will see what's there after the weekend. Variants: os-neon, o2-neon, o3-neon-novect and o3-neon. /Regards Åsa

12 years, 3 months

[ACTIVITY] Jan 09 - Jan 13

by Ulrich Weigand

== GDB == * Implemented, tested, and posted for discussion yet another version of remote support for "info proc" and core file generation, this time via accessing /proc files via generic file I/O primitives. == GCC == * Tested and merged Revital's fix for LP #879725. * Tested Richard's patch to help code generation for NEON strided loads by enabled forward-propagation of subreg expressions. This caused optimization failures on x86_64; investigated the root cause and engaged in discussion on mailing list on potential fixes. * Helped Ramana look into PR 43808 and PR 50313. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards Ulrich Weigand -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand | Phone: +49-7031/16-3727 STSM, GNU compiler and toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell/B.E. IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Martin Jetter | Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294

12 years, 3 months

[ACTIVITY] 9th - 13th January

by Andrew Stubbs

Continued work on 64-bit shifts. I've tidied up most of the nastiness I had in my first attempt at this work, unified the logic into fewer places, and fixed the one logic error that I knew about. I had a mysterious reload bug that just wouldn't go away, but having stared at it for some time I've decided that what I was doing wasn't the best option in any case, and the new way seems to work. I still have the problem that register-allocation prefers to allocate the values in core-registers, even when it would seem to me to work better in NEON. This maybe because the shift amount must be negated in some cases, and there isn't a neon instruction for that. Continued trying to use LAVA to do builds. Unfortunately this seems to have hit against a lava-test bug. Filed as lp:915915.

12 years, 3 months

[ACTIVITY] weekly status

by Ken Werner

Hi, * built linaro binary toolchain using Michaels crosstool-ng environment: * disabled multiarch and pkg-config * uses eglibc 2.13 (due to RPC headers) * using Linux kernel version 2.6.32.48 (longterm) * debugged why /sbin/init fails when using the linaro binary toolchain: * the loader and libc of the binary toolchain is build for armv7 * the binaries (init, busybox, ...) are linked against this glibc and using the libdl-2.13.so of the binary toolchain * it causes the boot to fails due to illegal insn caused by the dl * built the minimal image for armv7-a: * use the vexpress_defconfig of linaro 3.1 tree linux-linaro-3.1.git (instead of the OE vesatilebp kernel) * boots fine using the vexpress-a9 QEMU system model * sato image (X and gtk+ apps) for armv7-a: * Tremor (vorbis): inline assembly only supports ARM mode quick workaround: undefine _ARM_ASSEM_ to fall back to C * pulseaudio/libatomics-ops: inline asm that only supports ARM mode quick workaround: use the latest version from upstream * gtk+_2.24.8 fails due to the libstdc++ libtool archive easy fix: delete the *la files (just like most of the distributors) the *la files prevent the the binary toolchain from being "relocatable" * sato image boots and shows the gui but the X resolution is higher and the X cursor behaves strange (probably not a miscompile but a difference of the linaro kernel) Regards, Ken

12 years, 3 months

[ACTIVITY] report week 02

by Peter Maydell

RAG: Red: Amber: Green: good progress on A15 vexpress system model Current Milestones: || || Planned || Estimate || Actual || ||cp15-rework || 2012-01-06 || 2012-02-20 || || ||initial-a15-system-model || 2012-01-27 || 2012-01-27 || || ||qemu-kvm-getting-started || 2012-03-04?|| 2012-03-04?|| || (for blueprint definitions: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuKVM) Historical Milestones: ||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 || 2011-10-27 || ||upstream-omap3-cleanup || 2011-11-10 || 2011-12-15 || 2011-12-12 || == cp15-rework == * estimate shifted back since it turns out we can do something useful in initial-a15-system-model without this as a prerequisite, so that's a better order to do things in == initial-a15-system-model == * I now have a working vexpress-a15 board model, and enough of the a15 private peripheral region and CPU definition that we can boot a kernel compiled for A15-without-LPAE * patchseries mostly looks ok to upstream but there are some loose ends to fix up involving SMP secondary boot CPU protocol and making sure the right one of the two graphics controllers gets to display things; also it depends on some patches in the Calxeda/Samsung patchseries == other == * patch review: Calxeda now basically ready to commit, another round with Samsung * made qemu-linaro 2012.01 release * usual round of meetings etc

12 years, 3 months

[ACTIVITY] Week 2

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

==Progress=== * Backported one part of the partial-partial PRE patch . Still looking into it. * Investigate PR48308 - a bug where combine was generating incorrect transformations. * Reopened PR50313 - a bug which I originally thought was a dup of PR48308. * Looked at upstream bugzilla for sometime and triaged a few bugs. * Linaro patch review. === Plans === * Continue looking at partial-partial PRE and try and understand it further. * Look at PR50313 further * Upstream patch review. * Finish submitting PGO patch and ABI tests patch * Look at Andrew's patches for neon shifts - Absences. * Feb 6-10 : Linaro Connect Q1.12. * Feb 13- 18 : Holiday.

12 years, 3 months

[ACTIVITY] Week 1

by Ramana Radhakrishnan

==Progress=== * Short week - 4 days only after the bank holiday monday. * Investigated PR48308 for a bit. * Caught up with emails after vacation. * Looked at fate an automatic tester for libav to validate my fixed to fp conversions . Need to finish that off. * 1 more bug with output_move_double ICE looked at briefly. Appears to be memory corruption but valgrinding didn't find the issue. Prioritizing PR48308 above this. === Plans === * Look at PR48308 a bit more seriously. * Finish my long standing patches. Absences. * Feb 6-10 : Linaro Connect Q1.12. * Feb 13- 18 : Holiday.

12 years, 3 months

Microkernel based virtualisation

by Michael Hope

Amber noticed this on her Twitter feed: a L4 microkernel based para-virtualisation that runs on the A9: http://l4dev.org/ They're currently running the 11.12 LEB on a Versatile Express. The project overview: http://l4dev.org/codezero_overview talks about their 'hyperswitch' method to reduce the para-virtualisation overhead and reduce the number of changes to the Linux kernel. -- Michael

12 years, 3 months

Release done, branch is open

by Michael Hope

The GCC release tested up just fine. The branch is now open for commits. The next release is Thursday the 9th of February. Note that this is in the middle of Connect. -- Michael

12 years, 3 months

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