Ah, yes, that's part of the intent of the common Makefile. It'll be a while until it's implemented but it's on my to-do list.
Kind regards, Bobby -- Dr. Bobby R. Bruce Room 2235, Kemper Hall, UC Davis Davis, CA, 95616 web: https://www.bobbybruce.net On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:13 PM Ciro Santilli <ciro.santi...@arm.com> wrote: > Yes, my main point is that hopefully when you run "make ISA=arm64" / or > scons it will build at least all single input source files that we have in > one go e.g.: > > main.c -> out/arm64/main.out > test2.c -> out/arm64/test2.out > > for the given ISA, as I did in the mentioned patchset, without me having > to cd into various directories and run make in them. > > ________________________________ > From: gem5-dev <gem5-dev-boun...@gem5.org> on behalf of Bobby Bruce < > bbr...@ucdavis.edu> > Sent: Friday, April 17, 2020 12:45 AM > To: gem5 Developer List <gem5-dev@gem5.org> > Subject: Re: [gem5-dev] gem5-resources: Feedback appreciated! > > Ciro, > > Could you flesh out for me what you're asking here, and how it relates to > this gem5-resources repository? > > If you want to add code compilable to all ISAs, etc, you'll be free to do > so. > > Bobby > -- > Dr. Bobby R. Bruce > Room 2235, > Kemper Hall, UC Davis > Davis, > CA, 95616 > > web: https://www.bobbybruce.net > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:40 AM Ciro Santilli <ciro.santi...@arm.com> > wrote: > > > Thanks for this Bobby, > > > > I think this is in your plans, but just to confirm, what I would really > > like to see is a way to build all ISA agnostic C/C++ userland (and > > hopefully baremetal) sources that generate for a give ISA with a single > > build command along the lines of: > > > https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/27308/1/tests/test-progs/Makefile > > (except possibly for huge userland executables that take a long time to > > compile or have non-trivial dependencies) > > > > ________________________________ > > From: gem5-dev <gem5-dev-boun...@gem5.org> on behalf of Gabe Black < > > gabebl...@google.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 2:43 AM > > To: gem5 Developer List <gem5-dev@gem5.org> > > Subject: Re: [gem5-dev] gem5-resources: Feedback appreciated! > > > > I think this is a good idea. I would advocate to not use Make for these > > since it sort of falls over, or gets very complicated, when trying to > build > > the same source for multiple target architectures simultaneously. I have > > CLs which convert the m5 utility's build over to scons which I think > worked > > out well, and with some thought could be regularized and hopefully made > > easy to stamp out for different test, etc, sources. Of course, as long as > > we don't say though shalt use make, it doesn't really matter in the short > > term since that's relatively easy to change in the future. > > > > Gabe > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:58 AM Bobby Bruce <bbr...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > As part of the gem5 20 release, we want to improve the way we handle > the > > > gem5 resources. What I mean by resources are things such as test > > programs, > > > images, kernels, etc; stuff that we don't strictly need to compile or > run > > > gem5, but we frequently use (and/or may be difficult to distribute as > > part > > > of gem5 due to licencing conflicts). At present, some of these are > > > currently committed within the gem5 repository, and some are pulled > from > > > our Google Cloud bucket as needed (there may be others outside of this > of > > > which I am not aware of). > > > > > > The problem at present is: > > > A) The resources are not available in some common way across the > project. > > > B) The resources change over time and this change is not well recorded, > > > particularly in the case of compiled binaries. The source of these > > binaries > > > needs to be provided and changes to them properly logged. > > > C) Similar to B), resources do not map to versions. A resource can > change > > > in our cloud bucket over time, which may break certain activities if > > needed > > > by a previous version of gem5. > > > > > > The proposal is to add another repository alongside gem5 and > gem5-website > > > on googlesource. This repository will contain the resources' sources, > > which > > > can be compiled to produce the resources used by the project. I've > > started > > > producing this here: https://github.com/gem5/gem5-resources. Please > > have a > > > look and consult the README.md for an explanation on how this > repository > > > would work. > > > > > > The compiled products of this repo would be uploaded to our > > dist.gem5.org > > > bucket. If someone wanted to alter or add a resource to gem5, they'd do > > so > > > in this repo (via Gerrit). The gem5-resource directory would adopt the > > same > > > versioning and master/develop branch split system as gem5 currently > does. > > > So, as gem5 v20.0.0.0 is released, so would gem5-resources v20.0.0.0. > > > Version X of gem5 would always be assumed to work with version X of > > > gem5-resources. The dist.gem5.org bucket would be kept up to date. > > > dist.gem5.org/dist/current would track changes made to the > > gem5-resources > > > develop branch with dist.gem5.org/dist/${VERSION} > <http://dist.gem5.org/dist/$%7BVERSION%7D> > > <http://dist.gem5.org/dist/$%7BVERSION%7D> > > > <http://dist.gem5.org/dist/$%7BVERSION%7D> containing the resources > > > for the ${VERSION} release. > > > > > > A few notes: > > > - gem5 19 contains tests that pull from dist.gem5.org/dist/current. I > > > believe I'll need to apply a hotfix to this release to pull from > > > dist.gem5.org/dist/v19-0-0-1 instead. > > > - Right now there is a lot of stuff on dist.gem5.org/dist/current > which > > I > > > do not have sources for. I may need to ask around. This may be a bit of > > > work. > > > > > > I'd appreciate feedback on this, if anyone has any, before I proceed > > > further with this plan. > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Bobby > > > -- > > > Dr. Bobby R. 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