Thanks for the heads up Tixy. Adding Amit, Anmar and Usman. On 16 May 2012 10:58, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <t...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hello All > > ARM have released a new version of Developer Studio 5 (DS-5) and we now > have a new version of the Gator component [1] to go with this which > needs updating in all Linaro kernel trees that will be part of the 12.05 > release. > > For those people maintaining kernel trees here is what this means... > > - If your kernels are including the linux-linaro-core-tracking [2] > branch then you will get the new Gator version from this when it is > updated over the next couple of days. You don't need to do anything > except to make sure you are up to date with this branch before the 12.05 > release. > > - For Ubuntu kernels not including linux-linaro-core-tracking (and not > being released from the common linux-linaro branch) then you should > replace your existing gator topic branch (or add one if it is missing). > This new topic branch can be created by pulling from the ARM Landing > Team's tree [3], we have tree topic branches available for the last > three kernel versions... > > tracking-armlt-gator (3.4-rc7) > 3.3-armlt-gator-5.10 > 3.2-armlt-gator-5.10 > > The code in these branches is identical, they are just rebased onto > different Linux versions to make pulling easier. > > - For Android kernels, if your kernel already includes the Gator topic, > then this should be updated as above. If it doesn't already have Gator > then you can add this topic now, or, leave it for the time being. (Some > Android builds are using a separate Gator git repo in their manifest and > this will continue to work for now.) > > If anyone has any questions or if anything is unclear, please do > hesitate to contact me. > > For those people who have applied Mali driver patches to support > profiling by Gator: you don't need to modify those Mali patches, just > take the new version of Gator, this will still work OK. > > Cheers > > -- > Tixy > > > > > > > > [1] Gator is the ARM target device components for ARM's Streamline > Performance Analyzer which is part of their Developer Studio (DS-5). > http://www.arm.com/products/tools/software-tools/ds-5/streamline.php > > [2] > http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=kernel/linux-linaro-tracking.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-linaro-core-tracking > > [3] git://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/arm/kernel.git > > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
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