[Linaro] Release Meeting 2011-11-18

[Fathi Boudra]

== What was done engineering wise? ==

 * Linaro GCC 4.6-2011.11 released.
  - LP: #836401  ICE on a | (b << negative-constant)
 * Linaro QEMU 2011.11 released.
  - LP: #886980 8 and 16 bit reads from the OMAP GPIO module  would crash due
    to an nfinite recursion
  - LP: #823902 problems running multithreaded programs in linux-user mode
 * Linaro Linux 3.1-2011.11 released.

== What's about to land that might impact the other teams ==

 * New U-Boot-Linaro 2011.11 release, with changes at the U-Boot SPL to support
   USB booting. This might affect the OMAP 4 images, but it's already tested
   and validated by Linaro.
 * libjpeg-turbo work on going, updating libjpeg-turbo packaging to include
   libjpeg8 support and collecting tjbench performance information.

== Summary of bugs working on by team ==

 * LP: #771569 "Provide link for cross-compiling with pkg-config"
   [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/771569

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

 * Fixes proposed for the cross toolchain, available at
   https://code.launchpad.net/~hrw/ubuntu/precise/gcc-4.6/cross-fixes/+merge/82269

== Issues ==

 * OpenGL ES 2 support at Compiz is still not merged, need to discuss better
   how we're moving this forward with the DX team.

== Misc ==

 * Planned to help on armhf port for Ubuntu Precise.
 * Help testing Ubuntu on ARM with LAVA, by enabling Precise builds. We still
   need to discuss with the ARM team to understand better how we can help them
   using LAVA.