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
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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
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