Hi all, I just added an issue for this on our issue tracker: https://gem5.atlassian.net/browse/GEM5-212. Please put any comments there if you want to continue the conversation!
The issue is currently slated for completion by April for the gem5-20 release. Cheers, Jason On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:41 PM Gabe Black <gabebl...@google.com> wrote: > > I was ultimately able to find some documentation over here: > > http://www.roma1.infn.it/SIC/_OLD_documentazione/unix/migr/digital-unix-doc/DOCUMENTATION/HTML/AA-PY8AC-TET1_html/TITLE.html > > but I was suprised at how hard it was to find. I think the other ISAs are > probably not too hard to maintain since they have (to my knowledge) a > decent amount of documentation out there, but I guess Alpha was too > proprietary in its day, and too far dead for there to be much of any grass > roots open source-ey documentation and support out there for it. > > I think for Alpha, the support effort and the likelihood of breaking > something while trying to maintain it blind may have tipped it into the not > worth it category. > > Gabe > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 10:20 AM Steve Reinhardt <ste...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 <ja...@lowepower.com> > > 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 <ste...@gmail.com> > > 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 <gabebl...@google.com> > > > 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 > > > > gem5-dev@gem5.org > > > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > > > gem5-dev mailing list > > > gem5-dev@gem5.org > > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > > _______________________________________________ > > gem5-dev mailing list > > gem5-dev@gem5.org > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > gem5-dev@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list gem5-dev@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
