[ACTIVITY] report week ending 25 Jan

2019-01-25 Thread Peter Smith
Majority of the week spent preparing for Fosdem talk on LLD: - Built Chrome for Arm and AArch64 to investigate link time performance on non-X86 platforms -- Both gold and bfd take a considerable amount of time to produce stubs/veneers/errata fixes -- AArch64 link time is comparable to X86 - LLD

[ACTIVITY] report week ending 25 Jan

2019-01-25 Thread Peter Maydell
Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] + code review: - 'SBSA reference' model (now quite close to being in shape to go in) - RTH's BTI patchset - RTH's patchset adding TBI support to user-mode emulation + sent patches fixing the last lot of clang