[ACTIVITY] week ending Jun. 10 2018

2018-06-08 Thread Alex Bennée
SVE Support ([VIRT-198]) [VIRT-198] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-198 RISU Support for SVE ([VIRT-199]) ~ - started work on next [iteration of SVE series] - added variable size reginfo for backwards compatibility - vari

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 8 June

2018-06-08 Thread Peter Smith
[ACTIVITY] - Landed D44928, we should pass the subtarget through to fixups and relaxation now. The only remaining use of the subtarget in the assembler backend is for writeNop(). Patches to fix that are upstream but I'm not hopeful that anyone will want to review them due to the cost/benefit. - Wr

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 8 June

2018-06-08 Thread Peter Maydell
Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] + reviewed the next chunk of rth's SVE patches + various other misc code review + updated windows cross-build environment to handle impending bump in our minimum supported glib version * VIRT-164 [improve Cortex-M emulation] + revised

[ACTIVITY] 4-8 June 2018

2018-06-08 Thread Christophe Lyon
== Progress == * GCC - FDPIC patch series: received some feedback. Will have to iterate. - Rebased uclibc patches on top of uclibc-ng, now debugging build problems * GCC upstream validation: - looking at some random noise in testing * Infrastructure: - patch reviews - cleanup/improvemen

Re: SVE routines for cortex-strings

2018-06-08 Thread Ramana Radhakrishnan
On 04/06/2018 19:30, Richard Henderson wrote: On 06/04/2018 11:19 AM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote: Yes, using cortex-strings as the bridge is indeed the preferred way. I am asking which strategy do you see: - Adding ifunc variants and add them as default if system advertise SVE support.