It would be sad for me personally but I don't disagree. I think earlier our support for other ISAs was not as strong so Alpha was still valuable, but now that we have support ranging from very good to great for ARM, x86, and RISC-V, it's hard to justify continuing to put effort into it.
Steve On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 9:32 AM Jason Lowe-Power <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Does this hint at the fact that maybe we don't need to have support for > Alpha anymore? If we can't find documentation I feel like it's unlikely > anyone is using this. > > I hate to bring this us again, but dropping support for uncommon ISAs would > provide a lot of benefits including: > - Simplifying code > - Removing untested and/or dead code > > And, most importantly, it would prevent people from doing inappropriate > research. There were recently some questions on gem5-users or stack > overflow asking for help getting an ancient Alpha disk image with Parsec on > it running. There's no way it's appropriate to use a disk image, kernel > image, and benchmarks compiled ~10 years ago for research today. > > <Ducks and covers>, > > Jason > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 9:21 AM Steve Reinhardt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If I have anything it's on the hard drive of a machine that needs some > work > > before it will even boot, sorry... > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:19 PM Gabe Black <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hey, does anybody have some documentation tucked away somewhere which > > > documents the Alpha ABI? I don't seem to have that anywhere, and the > > > internet isn't being very helpful. > > > > > > Gabe > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gem5-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
