Re: [gccsdk] UnixLib and ARMv8

2016-03-14 Thread Lee Noar
On 12/03/16 11:53, Chris Gransden wrote: In article <56e2edd9.7020...@sky.com>, Lee Noar wrote: On 05/03/16 17:23, Theo Markettos wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 04:06:12PM +0100, John Tytgat wrote: On 03/01/2016 07:26 PM, Theo Markettos wrote: [...] I can do some implementation and testi

Re: [gccsdk] UnixLib and ARMv8

2016-03-12 Thread Chris Gransden
In article <56e2edd9.7020...@sky.com>, Lee Noar wrote: > On 05/03/16 17:23, Theo Markettos wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 04:06:12PM +0100, John Tytgat wrote: > >> On 03/01/2016 07:26 PM, Theo Markettos wrote: > >>> [...] > >>> I can do some implementation and testing, if this is deemed to

Re: [gccsdk] UnixLib and ARMv8

2016-03-11 Thread Lee Noar
On 05/03/16 17:23, Theo Markettos wrote: On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 04:06:12PM +0100, John Tytgat wrote: On 03/01/2016 07:26 PM, Theo Markettos wrote: [...] I can do some implementation and testing, if this is deemed to be a good idea. ('testing' in a loose sense - provoking concurrency conditions

Re: [gccsdk] UnixLib and ARMv8

2016-03-05 Thread Theo Markettos
On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 04:06:12PM +0100, John Tytgat wrote: > On 03/01/2016 07:26 PM, Theo Markettos wrote: > >[...] > >I can do some implementation and testing, if this is deemed to be > >a good idea. ('testing' in a loose sense - provoking concurrency > >conditions being somewhat hard) > > FYI,

Re: [gccsdk] UnixLib and ARMv8

2016-03-05 Thread John Tytgat
On 03/01/2016 07:26 PM, Theo Markettos wrote: [...] I can do some implementation and testing, if this is deemed to be a good idea. ('testing' in a loose sense - provoking concurrency conditions being somewhat hard) FYI, UnixLib has some testing code in its 'test' subdirectory (incl. pthread)

Re: [gccsdk] UnixLib and ARMv8

2016-03-01 Thread Theo Markettos
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 03:42:55PM -, Ben Avison wrote: > and something similar for the other instances of SWP. However, I can't help > thinking it would be neater to do the ReadPlatformFeatures once somewhere > very early on in library initialisation and store the result in library > static da

Re: [gccsdk] UnixLib and ARMv8

2016-03-01 Thread Lee Noar
On 01/03/16 15:42, Ben Avison wrote: Hi folks, As you'll probably have heard, Raspberry Pi have launched a new board based on the ARMv8 Cortex-A53. One of the main compatibility issues remaining is that anything built on UnixLib is rather unlikely to work. I did a bit of investigating and found

[gccsdk] UnixLib and ARMv8

2016-03-01 Thread Ben Avison
Hi folks, As you'll probably have heard, Raspberry Pi have launched a new board based on the ARMv8 Cortex-A53. One of the main compatibility issues remaining is that anything built on UnixLib is rather unlikely to work. I did a bit of investigating and found the problem was with the use of SWP i