[ACTIVITY] w12

2012-03-21 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! * Moved the v8 wiki page the the Benchmark section, and corrected the documentation a bit: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Benchmarks/V8_And_SunSpider * Pushed the v8 cbuild make file to: https://code.launchpad.net/~linaro-toolchain-dev/cbuild/trunk Note that the file contai

Fwd: [ACTIVITY] w11

2012-03-16 Thread Asa Sandahl
Sorry, wrong link in the previous message. https://wiki.linaro.org/AsaSandahl/Sandbox/JavaScriptBenchmarks /Åsa -- Forwarded message -- From: Asa Sandahl Date: 16 March 2012 16:32 Subject: [ACTIVITY] w11 To: linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org Hi! * V8 - SunSpider The pieces for

[ACTIVITY] w11

2012-03-16 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! * V8 - SunSpider The pieces for building in cbuild and parsing with the linaro-toolchain-benchmark scripts are in place. Ran the SunSpider benchmark across a few toolchains with the o2-neon and o3-neon variants. I have documented my work on this page, but not analyzed the results yet. https://

Fwd: [ACTIVITY] w10

2012-03-09 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! * Bug reports Made an effort clean up among the remaining not-triaged bug. Michael will help out with 941676, where the failure is on power-pc. * Wiki Created a wiki page for running benchmarks in cbuild: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Benchmarks/RunningBenchmarksWithCbuild

Bug triage of 941676

2012-03-07 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi Michael, A new bug triaging question. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ppl/+bug/941676 This one is special too because the failure is on powerpc. This means, I cannot reproduce it easily, and scan through the toolchains (without building). Matthias has given some information and a g

Re: Running benchmark variants

2012-03-07 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi, Here is a new wiki page for benchmarking with cbuild. I separated it into one part describing how to use the autobuilders, and one part for setting stuff up manually, for instance for running on the ursas. * * https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Benchmarks/RunningBenchmarksWithCbui

Bug triaging of 945503

2012-03-06 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! I need a little help with triaging of this bug, it is a little different from the ones I have triaged so far: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/945503 - gcc-4.7 branch imports fail (timeouts) It is already set to Confirmed, my question is what is needed to go to the triaged stage? A

[ACTIVITY] w09

2012-03-04 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! * Development benchmarks: Finished the first implementation, sent to Michael for review. * This became a very short week because of sickness. Plans for week 10 is to triage existing bugs, and to get going again with the SunSpider benchmark. Regards Åsa _

[ACTIVITY] w08

2012-02-24 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! * Development benchmarks: Focused on the implementation of development benchmarks in the cbuild system. Discussed with Michael about how the comments should look. I am now testing my solution in the launchpad staging area. You can see a link to an example of a benchmark result comment below. (

[ACTIVITY] w07

2012-02-16 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! * Finished gcc-4.7 benchmarking: https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain/Benchmarks/gcc-4.7_benchmarking Results uploaded to lp:~linaro-toolchain-wg/linaro-toolchain-benchmarks/private-runs * Development benchmarks: Continued the work started at connect. Got stuck for a while with a proble

[ACTIVITY] w05

2012-02-03 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! * -o2/-o3 benchmarking: Did some final work on the charts for the -O3 write up. * gcc-4.7 benchmarking: Worked on the charts for gcc-4.7 benchmarking. The Fortran tests in Spec2000 were missing from my runs. The reason was that I had mixed with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the cbuild make file on

[ACTIVITY] w04

2012-01-27 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! * -o2/-o3 benchmarking: Worked on and shared charts for the -o2/-o3 benchmark runs with gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.01. I have created charts for both the score of the benchmarks and the sizes (text segment) of the executables. Making improvements continuously as I get feedback from the team. The ch

Re: Adding lower optimisations into the mix

2012-01-23 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi, Sure, I can kick-off runs for these lower levels today. Regards Åsa On 24 January 2012 01:29, Michael Hope wrote: > Ken, Åsa: could you add a -O0 and -O1 build to the size and benchmark > results? I'm looking at the writeup and it would be interesting to > contrast the speed/size of -O0 wi

Bug triaging: 739305 "[armhf] libffi variadic support"

2012-01-23 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi, I am looking at ticket 739305 "[armhf] libffi variadic support" which still has status "New" for Linaro gcc. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libffi/+bug/739305 If I understand correctly, David's patch is included in libffi in Oneiric, but not yet backported to Linaro gcc? What is

Re: Narrowing down regressions on trunk

2012-01-20 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi Michael, Sure, I will put it up for next week. Regards Åsa On 20 January 2012 01:49, Michael Hope wrote: > Hi Åsa. The GCC 4.7 release is coming up and the ARM testsuite shows > a lot of regressions: > > http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/testlog/gcc-4.7~svn183205/logs/armv7l-natty-cbuild23

[ACTIVITY] w03

2012-01-20 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Started with bug triaging, looked at four different bugs (including Michael's example). Challenging, but interesting. Got great help from Ramana and Andrew. * -o2/-o3 benchmark runs with gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.01 done. coremark, eembc, denbench, pybench and spec2000. Uploaded all results ~linaro-to

Automatically save preprocessed source on ICE

2012-01-18 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi there! I need some help with how to handle this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/873977 It looks like an improvement suggestion more than a bug. Regards Åsa *Automatically save preprocessed source on ICE*In order to help with bug reporting, gcc could save the preprocessed sour

Triage of #914703

2012-01-17 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi Michael, So, I gave my best shot at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/914703 Kind of similar to the one in your walk-through, but I couldn't actually reproduce on the version reported. Could you please check if this looks OK? Regards Åsa __

Re: Bug triage run-through

2012-01-17 Thread Asa Sandahl
Ok, thanks! /Åsa On 16 January 2012 15:57, Marcin Juszkiewicz < marcin.juszkiew...@canonical.com> wrote: > W dniu 16.01.2012 15:51, Asa Sandahl pisze: > > Thanks Michael for the walk through. >> >> Matthias and Marcin: I am trying to find a new compiler for the bu

Re: Bug triage run-through

2012-01-16 Thread Asa Sandahl
Thanks Michael for the walk through. Matthias and Marcin: I am trying to find a new compiler for the bug reporter of: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/915689. I was thinking it could be an option to install a new toolchain from the linaro-maintainers ppa. https://launchpad.net/~linaro-m

[ACTIVITY] w02

2012-01-12 Thread 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 grap

Re: First proposals

2012-01-11 Thread Asa Sandahl
On 11 January 2012 09:39, Michael Hope wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Asa Sandahl > wrote: > > Hi Michael! > > > > Nice! I have some permission issue though. See below. > > Give it a go now. > Works now! > What happens when you press

Re: First proposals

2012-01-11 Thread Asa Sandahl
e have a record. >> >> First, visit: >> http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/proposals >> >> and see there are new merge requests from Ulrich with new results. >> >> Next, login: >> http://ex.seabright.co.nz/helpers/login >> > > Your login is

Fwd: [ACTIVITY] w51

2011-12-23 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi, * Continued with comparison of eembc results for gcc4.4 and gcc 4.6 (FSF and Linaro). Collecting results for 4.6 with loop-unrolling turned off. * Working on a plotbench.py script that will use matplotlib for plotting the results. Right now the script plots the geomean value, for instance for

[ACTIVITY] w50

2011-12-15 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi, * Finished an across-compilers report for benchmarks over the latest in FSF and Linaro series. Will start storing results in the linaro-toolchain-benchmarks bzr repository. * Looking closer at eembc results, especially regressions between gcc-4.4 and gcc-4.6. Did runs with gcc-linaro-4.4 with

[ACTIVITY] w49

2011-12-12 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! This week was spent doing internal ST-E work, but related to the Linaro tcwg so I will give a short summary anyway. I have taken the Linaro toolchain (prebuilt by the Android working group) and used it in our internal Android build. There were several build errors, as expected when going from

[ACTIVITY] w48

2011-12-02 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! * Continued with running eembc, coremark, denbench and spec2k on the ursas with the latest of the Linaro and FSF series. The variants used were o3-neon and o3-neon-novect. Something went wrong with the variants the first time, so I had to rerun the tests once. Discussed draft report with Michae

[ACTIVITY] w47

2011-11-24 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! * Ran eembc, coremark, denbench and spec2k on the ursas with the latest of the Linaro and FSF series. The variants used were o3-neon and o3-neon-novect. I first got a c++ related build error when using 4.4.x compilers, the was error caused by symbol versioning. Michael's explanation: "We wan

[ACTIVITY] w45

2011-11-11 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! * Ran EEMBC and SPEC on the ursa4. Sorted out a bunch of basic questions related to permissions ans such with Michael. Familiarized myself with the scripts for parsing benchmark results. * Created wiki for running benchmarks in cbuild. It is in my sandbox right now: https://wiki.linaro.org/Asa

[ACTIVITY] w43

2011-10-28 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Looked at how to configure Firefox and how to build different parts of the program. Usage of .mozconfig, myrules.mk and myconfig.mk. * Tested the Talos framework. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Buildbot/Talos. I think it would be good to use Talos for the browsing benchmarks. We can discuss it further

[ACTIVITY] w42

2011-10-21 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Still having trouble with using multistrap/pdebuild-cross for cross-compiling Firefox - it looks like only x86 packages get downloaded, not armel. I have asked Wookey for advice, and he will try to reproduce the build. * Falling back to native compiling until the cross-compiling set up has been s

[ACTIVITY] w41

2011-10-14 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Working on using pdebuildcross/multistrap when cross compiling Firefox. With multistrap all dependencies should be sorted out automatically. The current status is that pdebuild-cross for armel is set up and the compilation of the Firefox package starts. Does not come all the way though, because s

[ACTIVITY] w39

2011-09-30 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Working on croos-compiling Firefox. Getting dependencies in place and setting up the configuration file (.mozconfig). I have had the strategy to fix one dependency at a time, picking prebuilt packages or building my self. Michael told me at yesterday's meeting about multistrap, that could possibl

[ACTIVITY] w38

2011-09-23 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Working on getting everything in place for cross-compiling Firefox for ARM. Trying to understand how the configuration script and make file works. * Working on a test that will run Sunspider and extract the results. The challenging part is that results are only presented on the page, not e.g. wri

[ACTIVITY] w37

2011-09-16 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Running SPEC2K on the Snowball board. A fresh kernel with HIGHMEM enabled made it possible to run the tests. Great variations in the results indicates that something strange is going on. Turning off one of the CPU:s gives stable result (but slow), so my current guess is that the variations are ca

Re: arm-eabi-g++: error: unrecognized option '-avoid-version'

2011-09-13 Thread Asa Sandahl
Thanks Richard! /Åsa On 13 September 2011 11:50, Richard Sandiford wrote: > Very nonauthorotative answer, but... > > Asa Sandahl writes: > > When building Android with the Linaro toolchain, I encountered this link > > time error when going from gcc 4.4.3 to gcc 4.6

arm-eabi-g++: error: unrecognized option '-avoid-version'

2011-09-13 Thread Asa Sandahl
Hi! When building Android with the Linaro toolchain, I encountered this link time error when going from gcc 4.4.3 to gcc 4.6. "arm-eabi-g++: error: unrecognized option '-avoid-version'" I find several posts about people encountering the same thing for different programs. Was this option remove

[ACTIVITY] w36

2011-09-09 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Completed First-time wiki page, at least for now. Expecting to add more information as I go. * Running SPEC2K on the Snowball board. The tests are failing because I run out out of memory. This is due to too little RAM available in the default kernel configuration. (Official HW pack.) I had a go

[ACTIVITY] w35

2011-09-02 Thread Asa Sandahl
* SPEC2K week. Experimented with building and running and finally did a full run on the Panda board. * Running SPEC2K on the Snowball board as well. It is troublesome to work with the board because of the ethernet problem that makes the board freeze after some time. I have to use the SD-card for fi

[ACTIVITY] 21th - 26th August

2011-08-26 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Investigated the errors in the automotive test and concluded that they are CRC-errors, but not depending on the test case result (non intrusive crc check). We decided these errors need to be cleared out once and for all. Michael and Ramana helping out with continued investigation. * EEMBC run on

[ACTIVITY] 15th - 19th August

2011-08-19 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Started running EEMBC on Panda. Got three errors in the automotive test at this point. * Started documenting necessary steps for my start-up task: https://wiki.linaro.org/Internal/ToolChain/Benchmarks/First%20time%20notes * Upgraded the Snowball board to the latest version (V3). Created a corresp

[ACTIVITY] 11th - 15th July

2011-07-15 Thread Asa Sandahl
Achieved: * Set up networking on the Panda board, ssh to the board from my laptop works fine. * Downloaded the benchmarks (SPEC2000 and EEMBC) and built them for x86. I now have a basic understanding of what the benchmarks do and how to run them. * For EEMBC I used the -m32 flag for building on my

[ACTIVITY] 4th - 8th July

2011-07-07 Thread Asa Sandahl
Achieved: * HW in place. Borrowed another Panda board that I can use permanently. * linaro-media-create installed and working. Flashed sd-card with 11.05 for Panda board. * Played around with the Panda board. Networking is on the way. I can ssh to my computer from the Panda but not the other way

[ACTIVITY] 27th June - 1st July

2011-07-01 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Got introduced to most of the team members - great! * My manager fixed a linaro laptop for med which I have installed with Natty. (This is very good since I cannot run as root on my STEricsson laptop. There are also other security restrictions that makes it very hard to work in Linaro.) * Started