Re: [Cec-weeklies] ST40 tools #1517,#1518,#1519

[Christian Bruel <christian dot bruel at st dot com>]

please ignore

On 05/07/2015 10:43 AM, Christian Bruel wrote:
> 
> Highlights
> -----------
>  - Beta Breakpad delived
>  - Upstreaming (almost accepted)
> 
> Issues
> -------
>  - Current FSF trunk boostrap broken (delay validations)
> 
> Completed
> ----------
>  - Fixed FSF attribute optimize inlining
>  - Fixed FSF bad handling of ipa-cp (inlining of functions with constant
> propagation)
>  - Respinned ARM attribute target (means a week or merging/validation)
> 
> Details
> --------
>  - Breakpad-SH4
>     * Beta version delivered to customer for pre-integration testing
>       . No news good news. Seems to be integrated into the customer's box.
>       . Google upstreaming. All issues addresses. No objection for  landing
>       . Cross and on boards testing validation.
>       . Rewrote syscall layer for more preprocessor factorization
> (denser but more obfuscated)
> 
>  - Misc ST40
>      obsp,seinit integration
>     * Received a B2147 (Alicante) Board
>      Board setup done.
>     * Meeting (Pierre Gobin, Bruno Tisseran, Seraphin Bonnaffe, Loic
> Pallardy, Denis Hory, Ludovic Barre) to discuss SEINIT future
>       . Originally maintained in the OBSP by Bristol
>       . Integrated with Docsis modem using a "bpl elf patching tool" by
> OS team (remoteproc)
>       . Knowledge seems to be lost
>         -> seinit.o integration ?
>         -> Can't rebuild seinit.o. Who is in charge of the sources
> (currently embedded in the obsp) ?
> 
>       proposal:
>         - CEC replaces the elf patching tool by a board spec and a set
> of linker commands.
>         - CEC Volunteer to get the hands on the seinit sources. (own?)
>         - First Experiment to take them out of the OBSP tree (lot of
> dependencies).
>         - Issue with MMU/TLB/OS setups. Unknown specifications
> 
> 
>  - ST40 STlinux Toolchain
>      Working on GCC 5.0.0 distribution port
>      Progressing on the packages. glibc link error fixes
> 
>  - GCC generic and x-targets
>      - Working on ipa-cp inconsistencies (small functions not inlined)
>          Reduced to a generic case
>          x86 fixes accepted.
>      - Working on function alignments with attribute ((optimize))
>          Generic part fixed.
>          Need hooks into the target backends (spread to all backends)
>          x86, aarch64, alpha fixed
>          other targets still under approvals or still undetected
> 
>  - Misc
>      Re-spined attribute-target patch
>      Fixed documentation
> 
> 
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