Hi all, A large-sized project for some crafty person out there: A binary-translation CPU for fast-forwarding, much like the KVMCpu, but more portable. It could, for example, be built on top of the Tiny Code Generator (TCG), as it is BSD licensed.
Quite a big task, but also a very big contribution to gem5. Andreas On 23/01/2017, 16:57, "gem5-dev on behalf of Andreas Hansson" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >Hi all, > >Another medium-sized idea: Embed the generated system SVG in a web page >that can be used to interactively navigate the simulation results > >This should be fairly easy for anyone skilled in client-side scripting. It >may even be used to view incremental results while the simulation is >running. > >Andreas > >On 23/01/2017, 15:57, "gem5-dev on behalf of Andreas Sandberg" ><[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: > >>Hi Everyone, >> >>Thanks for organising this! See below for some of my ideas. >> >>Small projects: >> * Clean up serialization code for better code reuse (particularly >>container helpers) >> * Create a separate test classification for CI smoke tests (faster >>than quick) >> >>Medium-sized projects: >> * New test binaries based on the LLVM test suite >> * Mini-DSL for param overrides from the command line >> * Config cleanups. E.g., move some of config/common/ to a m5.config >>name space. >> * Proper support for pthreads in SE mode >> * Implement a fast mode in the HDLCD controller to support graphical >>worklaods (e.g., Android) in KVM >> >>Large projects: >> * Get scons to build basic components only once and share them >>between architectures >> >> >>I'd like to throw cmake in to the build system mix as well. I started >>hacking on a small prototype a while back, but it isn't able to build >>gem5 yet. >> >> >>Cheers, >>Andreas >> >> >>On 17/01/17 16:12, Jason Lowe-Power wrote: >>> Hi gem5 Developers! >>> >>> As you're probably aware, I'm going to be running a gem5 coding sprint >>>in >>> the afternoon after the Learning gem5 tutorial at HPCA on Sunday Feb 5. >>> >>> I'm looking for ideas for small projects that could be started (or even >>> better, completed) in a few hours. Do you have any small bugs that have >>> been bothering you? Any little features that would be nice, but you >>>haven't >>> had the time to work on? Now's the time to get these things done! >>> >>> Also, if you have any bigger projects that you think it would be good >>>for >>> people to chat about in the same room to come up with a plan of attack, >>>we >>> may be able to fit one or two of those in, too. >>> >>> Some examples that I have so far: >>> >>> Little projects: >>> 1. Fix TLB warmup for x86. (See http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3474/) >>> 2. Modify EventWrapper to understand C++11 lambdas so you can pass >>> parameters to simple process() functions without creating a new class. >>> 3. Develop some ISA instruction tests to find out what is implemented >>> correctly and possibly find some bugs. (See RISC-V insttest) >>> >>> Long-term things we may want to discuss: >>> 1. Revamping the test infrastructure >>> 2. Replacing scons, possibly with Bazel (see https://bazel.build/) >>> >>> Please respond with any ideas you have! We definitely won't get to >>> everything, but throwing ideas out there now will give us a large base >>>of >>> options for the coding sprint. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jason >> >>IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are >>confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended >>recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the >>contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy >>the information in any medium. Thank you. >>_______________________________________________ >>gem5-dev mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > >IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are >confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended >recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the >contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy >the information in any medium. Thank you. >_______________________________________________ >gem5-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
