[ACTIVITY] week ending Aug. 19 2018

[Alex Bennée]

SVE Support ([VIRT-198])
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- looked at re-factoring fcvt tests to add tests for rth's recent
fixes
- see [my initial test branch]
- the idea is to make adding a new op test case minimal effort


[VIRT-198] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-198

[my initial test branch]
https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/tree/testing/generic-op-tester

Other Tasks
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- Started working on "My Other Machine is Virtual" talk for YVR18
- use-case: find hot-block in pure CPU code
- use-case: trace disk activity on system boot
- Added another story to the [Instrumentation EPIC]


[Instrumentation EPIC] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/TCWG-1457

Absences
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- Holiday (16th-28th August 2018)
- YVR18 Connect (17th-21st September 2018)
- KVM Forum 2018 (24th-26th October 2018)

Current Review Queue
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* {Qemu-devel} {PATCH 0/3} synchronization profiler
Message-Id: <20180813171132.21939-3-***@braap.org>
* {PATCH 0/6} target/arm: More sve-ish fixes
Message-Id: <20180810193129.1556-1-***@linaro.org>
* {Qemu-arm} {PATCH 00/10} target/arm: Some pieces of support for 32-bit Hyp mode
Message-Id: <20180814124254.5229-1-***@linaro.org>
* {PATCH 00/20} target/arm: sve system mode patches
Message-Id: <20180809042206.15726-1-***@linaro.org>
* {PATCH v4 00/14} fp-test + hardfloat
Message-Id: <1528768140-17894-1-git-send-email-***@braap.org>
* {PATCH 0/5} tests/vm: Improvements when KVM is not available
Message-Id: <20180717024827.27897-1-***@amsat.org>
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Alex Bennée