Re: [Linaro-validation] Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-27 Thread Pawel Moll
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 21:19 +0100, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: With Pawel Moll's VExpress device tree support patches on top of mainline, we can produce a single kernel config and a set of device trees which allow booting on all the A15-based model variants. About device trees, does the

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-27 Thread Pawel Moll
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 19:20 +0100, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: It also requires a license from arm for each machine that runs it (it binds to mac address) This could be mitigated by setting up a Flex licence server for machines in the farm, with floating licences instead of noded-locked ones.

Re: [Linaro-validation] Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-27 Thread Peter Maydell
On 27 January 2012 10:30, Pawel Moll pawel.m...@arm.com wrote: I'm planning to modify the boot.S to be able to create an AXF file from separate kernel and DTB (will happen next week, if anyone wants to try it let me know and I'll notify you when it's ready) I would suggest you start out with

Re: [Linaro-validation] Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-27 Thread Dave Pigott
On 27 Jan 2012, at 10:33, Pawel Moll wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 19:20 +0100, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: It also requires a license from arm for each machine that runs it (it binds to mac address) This could be mitigated by setting up a Flex licence server for machines in the farm, with

Re: [Linaro-validation] Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-27 Thread Alexander Sack
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki zygmunt.kryni...@linaro.org wrote: HI. I'm building a LAVA service for running fast models. Quite soon (*) we'll be ready to open an alpha access. Right now you will need to bring your own root filesystem and kernel image to use it. With that

Re: [Linaro-validation] Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-27 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Alexander Sack a...@linaro.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki zygmunt.kryni...@linaro.org wrote: HI. I'm building a LAVA service for running fast models. Quite soon (*) we'll be ready to open an alpha access. Right now you will need

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-26 Thread Dave Pigott
On 25 Jan 2012, at 20:53, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: It takes a _long_ while to get to raw serial console login prompt of a stripped-down ubuntu nano image. On my core i7 (first gen) the simulator can sometimes reach around 1M instructions per second but is usually slower. On top of that I don't

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-26 Thread Zach Pfeffer
Adding Amit. Looks like getting a big cloud instance running may help. Is the simulator I/O or compute bound? On 26 January 2012 03:22, Dave Pigott dave.pig...@linaro.org wrote: On 25 Jan 2012, at 20:53, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: It takes a _long_ while to get to raw serial console login prompt

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-26 Thread Peter Maydell
On 26 January 2012 16:26, Zach Pfeffer zach.pfef...@linaro.org wrote: Looks like getting a big cloud instance running may help. Is the simulator I/O or compute bound? It is typically compute bound (unless you're short on RAM: 6GB the figure I've been bandying around as a plausible minimum).

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-26 Thread Dave Martin
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: Hi Zach It takes a _long_ while to get to raw serial console login prompt of a stripped-down ubuntu nano image. On my core i7 (first gen) the simulator can sometimes reach around 1M instructions per second but is usually

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-26 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Zach Pfeffer zach.pfef...@linaro.org wrote: Adding Amit. Looks like getting a big cloud instance running may help. Is the simulator I/O or compute bound? Compute bound. It also requires a license from arm for each machine that runs it (it binds to mac address)

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-26 Thread Dave Martin
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:33:35PM +0100, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: HI. I'm building a LAVA service for running fast models. Quite soon (*) we'll be ready to open an alpha access. Right now you will need to bring your own root filesystem and kernel image to use it. With that in mind I wanted

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-26 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Dave Martin dave.mar...@linaro.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:33:35PM +0100, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: HI. I'm building a LAVA service for running fast models. Quite soon (*) we'll be ready to open an alpha access. Right now you will need to bring your

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-26 Thread Scott Bambrough
On 12-01-26 01:24 PM, Dave Martin wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:33:35PM +0100, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: HI. I'm building a LAVA service for running fast models. Quite soon (*) we'll be ready to open an alpha access. Right now you will need to bring your own root filesystem and kernel image

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-26 Thread Zach Pfeffer
On 26 January 2012 13:52, Ryan Harkin ryan.har...@linaro.org wrote: On 26 January 2012 19:34, Scott Bambrough scott.bambro...@linaro.org wrote: On 12-01-26 01:24 PM, Dave Martin wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:33:35PM +0100, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: HI. I'm building a LAVA service for

Re: [Linaro-validation] Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-26 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Ryan Harkin ryan.har...@linaro.org wrote: On 26 January 2012 19:34, Scott Bambrough scott.bambro...@linaro.org wrote: On 12-01-26 01:24 PM, Dave Martin wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:33:35PM +0100, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: HI. I'm building a LAVA service

Re: [Linaro-validation] Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-26 Thread Peter Maydell
On 26 January 2012 20:19, Zygmunt Krynicki zygmunt.kryni...@linaro.org wrote: About device trees, does the simulator need an explicitly provided device tree (in a way we currently provide the kernel image and ramdisk) or is the dt table built into the image? The simulator doesn't care whether

Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-25 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
HI. I'm building a LAVA service for running fast models. Quite soon (*) we'll be ready to open an alpha access. Right now you will need to bring your own root filesystem and kernel image to use it. With that in mind I wanted to start a discussion about the state of A15 support in Linaro

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-25 Thread Zach Pfeffer
On 25 January 2012 14:33, Zygmunt Krynicki zygmunt.kryni...@linaro.org wrote: HI. I'm building a LAVA service for running fast models. Quite soon (*) we'll be ready to open an alpha access. Right now you will need to bring your own root filesystem and kernel image to use it. With that in

Re: Linaro kernel tree for A15 for daily builds

2012-01-25 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
Hi Zach It takes a _long_ while to get to raw serial console login prompt of a stripped-down ubuntu nano image. On my core i7 (first gen) the simulator can sometimes reach around 1M instructions per second but is usually slower. On top of that I don't know if it has any kind of support for