[ACTIVITY] weekly status

2012-03-02 Thread Ken Werner
Hi, OpenEmbedded: * Worked on the meta-linaro layer and added libgcc and crosssdk recipes to satisfy some bitbake dependencies * I had to apply a few patches to build the linaro toolchain the OE way (mostly gcc configury) * successfully built the sato and Qt images * Moved on to test t

[ACTIVITY] Feb 27 - Mar 2

2012-03-02 Thread Ulrich Weigand
== GCC == * Fixed mainline regression causing ICE in certain outer-loop vectorization cases. * Merged fwprop-subreg patch into Linaro GCC 4.7. * Completed patch to generate usat/ssat instructions where appropriate; checked into GCC mainline. Merge requests to Linaro GCC 4.6 and 4.7

[Activity ] Week 9

2012-03-02 Thread Ramana Radhakrishnan
==Progress=== * Finished off PGO patch - sent upstream. * Finished off the ABI tests - sent upstream. * Investigated fixes for LP 942307 - a problem with kernel builds for android. Backported a fix from Uli last year. * Upstream patch review. * Small configury done for SPEC2k as far as HC partitio

Agenda for next performance call

2012-03-02 Thread Ramana Radhakrishnan
is now here https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2012-03-06 Please add any topics that you might consider interesting for next time. Ramana ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org

Re: [RFC] NEON vs. ARM register selection

2012-03-02 Thread Ramana Radhakrishnan
On 2 March 2012 12:29, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > Hi All, > > As you know, the compiler currently has difficulties choosing between > whether to do an operation in NEON or not. > I have put this on the agenda for Tuesday's call - There is a bit of detail here that I haven't digested fully which is wh

[ACTIVITY] report week 09

2012-03-02 Thread Peter Maydell
Current Milestones: || || Planned|| Estimate || Actual || ||cp15-rework || 2012-01-06 || 2012-??-?? |||| (new blueprints & reestimate for this one pending) Historical Milestones: ||a15-usermode-support || 2011-11-10 || 2011-11-10 ||

lp:gcc/4.7

2012-03-02 Thread Andrew Stubbs
Hi Matthias, GCC 4.7.0 has branched upstream. SVN trunk is now 4.8. Could you please create lp:gcc/4.7 from the release branch. Thanks Andrew ___ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Please pull upstream rev. 184603 into gcc-linaro 4.7

2012-03-02 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On Wed 29 Feb 2012 18:05:46 GMT, Andrew Stubbs wrote: On 29/02/12 17:23, Bernhard Rosenkränzer wrote: Hi, 184603 fixes an ICE we're running into with Android test builds. Please pull it in ASAP so I don't have to mess with the CFLAGS as a workaround. There's a merge from r184662 begun testing

[RFC] NEON vs. ARM register selection

2012-03-02 Thread Andrew Stubbs
Hi All, As you know, the compiler currently has difficulties choosing between whether to do an operation in NEON or not. As I see it there are three problems: 1. Simply, is it profitable? NEON can do many DImode operations in one or two instructions where 2 to 10 normal ARM/Thumb