[ACTIVITY] week ending May. 20 2018

[Alex Bennée]

SVE Support ([VIRT-198])
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RISU Support for SVE ([VIRT-199])
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- get back to merging/preparing the SVE series :todo


[VIRT-199] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-199


SVE Reviews
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- reviewed {PATCH 0/9} target/arm: Fixups for ARM_FEATURE_V8_FP16
Message-Id: <20180425012300.14698-1-***@linaro.org>


SoftFloat Bugs ([VIRT-69])
==========================

- CLOSING NOTE [2018-05-18 Fri 16:41]
I think all known bugs have fixes now merged.


[VIRT-69] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-69


Upstream Work ([VIRT-109])
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- catch-up on review queue :todo
- posted {PATCH v4 00/49} fix building of tests/tcg Message-Id:
<20180517174718.10107-1-***@linaro.org>
- spin v5 and get merged :todo
- posted {PATCH v2 0/2} support reading of CNT{VCT|FRQ}_EL0 from
user-space Message-Id:
<20180518114424.18054-1-***@linaro.org>
- posted {RFC PATCH 0/2} Travis Stability Patches Message-Id:
<20180518091440.1559-1-***@linaro.org>


[VIRT-109] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-109

[a gdb bug] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23127

Fixing up tests/tcg
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- posted {PATCH v4 00/49} fix building of tests/tcg Message-Id:
<20180517174718.10107-1-***@linaro.org>


KVM CI Loop ([VIRT-2])
======================

- need to sync-up on the current state of this work :todo


[VIRT-2] https://projects.linaro.org/browse/VIRT-2

[our wiki] https://wiki.linaro.org/Core/Virtualization


Other Tasks
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- Investigate weird QEMU CI OBS build issue :todo
- the OBS build should be failing the RISU tests but isn't, despite
the commit id it reports
- bringing up my SyncQuacer DevBox with Gentoo
- needed one patch for Nouveau w.r.t 32/64 bit PCIE lanes
- needed to manually patch LVM to build initrd Message-Id:
<20180516201903.24309-1-***@linaro.org>


Completed Reviews [7/7]
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{PATCH v6 0/3} target/arm: Add a dynamic XML-description of the cp-registers to GDB
Message-Id: <1524153386-3550-1-git-send-email-***@lauterbach.com>
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- CLOSING NOTE tested with new gdb - some weirdness on timer register


{PATCH 00/19} softfloat: Clean up NaN handling
Message-Id: <20180511004345.26708-1-***@linaro.org>
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- CLOSING NOTE [2018-05-11 Fri 20:55]
Found a few minor bugs, rth re-spinning with my float-to-float stuff


{PATCH v4 00/11} target/arm: Fixups for ARM_FEATURE_V8_FP16
Message-Id: <20180512003217.9105-1-***@linaro.org>
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- CLOSING NOTE [2018-05-15 Tue 11:42]
Despite initial confusion on branch tested fine on both, all good.


{Qemu-devel} {PATCH 0/9} target/arm: Implement v8.1-Atomics
Message-Id: <20180427002651.28356-1-***@linaro.org>
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- CLOSING NOTE [2018-05-15 Tue 11:43]
Already merged, others have reviewed


{PATCH v2 00/27} softfloat patch roundup
Message-Id: <20180512004311.9299-1-***@linaro.org>
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- CLOSING NOTE [2018-05-15 Tue 11:45]
v5 released


{PATCH v5 00/28} softfloat patch roundup
Message-Id: <20180514221219.7091-1-***@linaro.org>
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- CLOSING NOTE [2018-05-15 Tue 15:10]
Looking good.


{PATCH v6 00/28} softfloat patch roundup
Message-Id: <20180515222540.9988-1-***@linaro.org>
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- CLOSING NOTE [2018-05-18 Fri 16:16]
Merged upstream

Absences
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- CBG Beer Festival (half day sometime next week)
- VNC18 Connect (17th-21st September 2018)
- KVM Forum 2018 (24th-26th October 2018)

Current Review Queue
====================

* {Qemu-arm} {PATCH v3-a 00/27} target/arm: Scalable Vector Extension
Message-Id: <20180516223007.10256-1-***@linaro.org>
* {Qemu-devel} {PATCH} gdbstub: Clarify what gdb_handlesig() is doing
Message-Id: <20180515181958.25837-1-***@linaro.org>
* {Qemu-devel} {PATCH 0/9} Honor CPU_DUMP_FPU
Message-Id: <20180511035240.4016-1-***@linaro.org>
* {Qemu-devel} {RFC PATCH v2 00/12} iommu: add MemTxAttrs argument to IOMMU translate function
Message-Id: <CAFEAcA_Dei48HtKk6GnEgXYcXdY2htCXej4pSfY+q9V6f=***@mail.gmail.com>
* {RFC PATCH 00/12} tests/tcg: Add TriCore tests
Message-Id: <20180501142222.19154-1-***@mail.uni-paderborn.de>
* {PATCH v3 00/15} fp-test + hardfloat
Message-Id: <1522883475-27858-1-git-send-email-***@braap.org>
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Alex Bennée