[ACTIVITY] week ending Oct. 25 2020

[Alex Bennée]

VirtIO Initiative ([STR-9])
===


VirtIO RPMB ([STR-5])
=

  - Synced with with Ulf/Illias on enhancements for eMMC stacks
- need to support 512 frames somehow for the CSD, everything else
  should be fine


[STR-5] 


VirtIO Portability Demo ([STR-13])
==

  - More work on trying to get Xen working on MB
- more failures, this time GIC related. Might just stick to KVM
  - Created a [branch with the experimental ioreq (virtio-mmio) support]
  - Got Virgl based acceleration working on both TCG and KVM - so now
fast graphics!
  - posted [PATCH v1 0/4] add guest-loader (for direct Xen boot)
Message-Id: <20201021170842.25762-1-alex.ben...@linaro.org>


[STR-13] 

[branch with the experimental ioreq (virtio-mmio) support]



Upstream Work ([QEMU-109])
==

  - Some discussion on converting the final bits of 96/128 bit softfloat
- posted [RFC PATCH 0/8] fpu: experimental conversion of
  float128_addsub Message-Id:
  <20201020163738.27700-1-alex.ben...@linaro.org>
- partial reviewed [RFC PATCH 00/15] softfloat: alternate conversion
  of float128_addsub Message-Id:
  <20201021045149.1582203-1-richard.hender...@linaro.org>
  - posted [PATCH v1 0/6] testing/next (gitdm, acceptance, docker,
gitlab) Message-Id: <20201021163136.27324-5-alex.ben...@linaro.org>


Other
=

  - reclaiming space for my gmail (98.5% used!)


Completed Reviews [1/1]
===

[PATCH 0/2] tcg: optimize across branches
Message-Id: <20201013222330.173525-1-richard.hender...@linaro.org>

Absences


- Welsh lockdown next week
  - Children at home

Current Review Queue


* [PATCH v3 0/4] GitLab Custom Runners and Jobs (was: QEMU Gating CI)
Message-Id: <20201014052140.1146924-1-cr...@redhat.com>
  Added: <2020-10-14 Wed>
* [PATCH v6 0/5] Enable plugin support on msys2/mingw
Message-Id: <20201013002806.1447-1-luoyongg...@gmail.com>
  Added: <2020-10-13 Tue>
* [PATCH v7 0/4] Improve cirrus msys2
Message-Id: <20201012233740.190-1-luoyongg...@gmail.com>
  Added: <2020-10-13 Tue>
* [PATCH RFC 00/22] Support of Virtual CPU Hotplug for ARMv8 Arch
Message-Id: <20200613213629.21984-1-salil.me...@huawei.com>
  Added: <2020-09-23 Wed>
-- 
Alex Bennée
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[ACTIVITY] 19-23 October 2020

[Christophe Lyon]

* 2 days off

== Progress ==
* GCC upstream validation:
- identified several regressions, but they had already been reported

* GCC
- PR96767: no feedback
- PR96770: no feedback
- patch for C++ thunks with -mpure-code and  cortex-m0: handling
further feedback
- Neon intrinsics: vceqq, vceqz and vceqzq for p64 patch: no feedback

* benchmarking:
- Scripts to run coremark on stm32 now merged, debugging issues. No
progress this week.

* infra:
- debugging issues with our docker containers

== Next ==
* GCC/cortex-M testing improvements & fixes
* cortex-m benchmarking
* MVE intrinsics improvements
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