On 04/27/12 07:46, Steve Reinhardt wrote: > So we've had these patches outstanding for over a year, and now we've got > people on the gem5-users list swapping tips about which syscalls you have > to change to get spec06 to work (by changing "fatal" to "warn" in some > cases). We should really get those patches pushed. > > It seems like they're mostly OK. There are a few minor issues that would > be nice to clean up. Unfortunately no one "owns" these patches, so the > cleanup isn't happening. I'm not sure where Vince went, but clearly he's > doing other things. Lisa did the favor of posting them to reviewboard, but > I don't think she ever intended to take full responsibility, and even if > she did, she's still on maternity leave. > > Does anyone want to step up and make this happen? I think the overhead is > pretty low if you've already got the spec06 x86 binaries and infrastructure > around (which I don't). > > If not, at this point I'd rather see them go in than continue to not commit > them because of minor issues that no one is willing to fix. > > The easiest way I've found is just go to Lisa's page and look for the ones > with "Vince Weaver" in the title: > http://reviews.gem5.org/users/hsul/ > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
If I recall, there were real problems with at least some of those patches. The last time we brought them up we acknowledged at least a problem with the ioctl patch(es) but I don't think they were ever addressed. Gabe _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
