Hi Jason, How would we keep the external repos in sync? Can a subrepo refer to a specific version?
Also note that we need to keep GPL code out of gem5 (including binaries), not just the source tree, so your bad point (3) below doesn’t change either way. Andreas On 03/03/2017, 19:35, "gem5-dev on behalf of Jason Lowe-Power" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >Hi all, > >There are a couple of patches in review that add a large chunk of code >from >other repositories to gem5 in ext/. Andreas S. has a patch that adds >PyBind11 and Matthias is updating DRAMPower. And we're thinking about >including SystemC in a similar way. > >Is there a better way for us to include these other projects in gem5's >source tree? For instance, we could use subrepos. What is the community's >thoughts on this? > >A few things I don't like about including the code in gem5: >1) It increases the amount of code in our repository >2) It is hard to track updates to these systems >3) The code cannot be GPL. > >Good thing about including the code in gem5: >1) Updates to external code won't break our system >2) It's easy to build gem5 without having to download other software > >Any other opinions or options for this? > >Thanks, >Jason >_______________________________________________ >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
