THESTATEOFARM64WOOKEY,WOOKEY@WOOKWARE.ORG

WHOISWOOKEY?DebianDeveloper,ARMporterEmbedded/multiarch/crossbuild/bootstrapLinaro,secondedfromARM

RAMBLETHROUGHSTATESupposedtobeBOF-yBuilt,working,optimised,missingHardwareavailabilityBenchmarking,whatnext

MOSTLYWORKING!Nearlyeverythingbuilds

I'mabuildengineer

Ifitbuilds,it'sdone.

SoweareDONE:-)

MOSTLYDONEThingspeoplecareaboutworkSomethingsstillneedporting

BUTHOWWELLDOTHEYWORK?Somethingsmaynotworkatall...PopularthingsareoptimisedManythingsarenotNeedfeedbackfromrealusers

SOMEHISTORYStarted2010-toolchains'Fast'Model2011Qemu2013HardwareMarch2014

5BOOTSTRAPSCrossbuiltinternalbootstrap2011Crossbuiltubuntubootstrap2012Ubunturebootstrap2013/14Debianportsrebootstrap2014Debianofficialrebootstrap2014/15

NOW96%built(11205packages)314failed370notforus

LANGUAGESOptimised

C,C++,Java(8&9),Python,Perl,Ocaml,Javascript(v8),Haskell(ghc),Lisp(SBCL)(2months)

PortedLua,R,Rust,Golang,Julia(3days),Perl6(3months),Javascript,Pascal(fpc)(justnow!),

MissingMono,libphobos(D),Luajit,?

STILLMISSINGMono(23)libphobos(D-libraries)(11)

MONOBlocks23packagesDonebutnotreleasedDoesanyonecareenough?Coreclrinstead?(notinDebianyet)

FREEPASCAL(FPC)Blocks22packagesPortDoneUploadedyesterday:-)

NOTMISSINGNodejs-libv8Julia-uploaded3daysagogolang-(basesupportinv1.5)Lua(butnoluajit)Ocaml(nativein4.02,2015.07)SBCL(2015.10)Perl6(2015.10)

OPTIMISATIONCfallbackAssembler,Intrinsics,Neon

ASSEMBLERINPACKAGES1000bitsofassembler:

https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/ArmSoftwareListhttp://performance.linaro.org/

Removingoftenbetterthan'fixing'(e.g.alsalib)

WHAT'SOPTIMISEDGCC(compilers)LLVM(nolinker)(compiler)Java8&9openSSLlibV8(Javascriptjit)fftw3(FFTlibrary)Neonsupportgnu-mp(gmp)(Feb2013)hadoop(crc,usingHWCAP)ceph(crc,usingHWCAP)Kernel(raid6,crypto)Xen,(loadslesscodeonarm64)/li>

NOTOPTIMISEDIonmonkey(MozillaJIT)Golang(beingworkedon)OpenCVffmpeg/libav(parts)OpenofficeLua(luajit)R?Whatelse?

BLOCKINGPACKAGESmono(23),fpc(22),libphobos(11)dietlibc(5)insighttoolkit(3)timblserver(2)umview(3)kexec-tools(2)

NEVERBUILT('AUTONOTFORUS')

Forotherarchesnvidia-supportnvramtoolpowerpc-utilsraxml

Probablyshouldbefixedopenafsrootstrapscmqtemudarktablelotsmore

IHAVENOHARDWARE!ONLINE

OVH(Runabove.com)ThunderXOBS(OpenBuildSystem)Debianporterboxes

IHAVENOHARDWARE!HARDWARE

HPMoonshotARMjunoAPMC1Softiron3000GigabyteMP30Hikey(96boards)Dragonboard410c(96boards)AnacondaPine64

AppliedMicroX-gene

$1500

Juno(ARMA57)

$6000

Moonshot(HP)

$10000+

Softiron3000(AMDseattleSOC)

$2500

GigabyteMP30(X-geneSOC)

€950

Hikey(96boards,Hisilicon/Lemaker)

$75(1G)$99(2G)

Dragonboard410c(96boards,Qualcomm)

$75

Pine64(AllwinnerA64)

May2016$15(0.5GB)-$29(2G)

BENCHMARKINGBenchmarkingacrossarchitecturesisdifficult.

Whataregoodtests?

Sometimesit'sobvious(botch)

Arch BuildTimeamd64: 37marm64(genericocaml): 4hrs52marm64(nativeocaml): 1hr15

BENCHMARKINGFindgoodtests?

Broadlyequivalentplatforms

Lookforchangesovertime

SO,SUGGESTIONS?