Thanks for the effort here, Gabe! I'm excited to dive in. Just FYI, I will probably not have the bandwidth to deeply look at this for at least a few weeks. Between remote teaching and trying to get the release out of the door, I'm completely swamped for the near term.
Cheers, Jason On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:00 AM Gabe Black via gem5-dev <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, also, while implementing everything in this new doc would/will be a > pretty big undertaking, I think forcing operands in the ISA descriptions to > be explicitly sources or destinations but not both would be a major > improvement. For most registers that should be pretty trivial (they are > already called things like "Dest" or "Src1"), and for the rest the change > should just be a lot of find/replace style changes. That could be a first > step towards what's in the doc and could be done immediately, independent > of anything else. > > Gabe > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:57 PM Gabe Black <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey folks.I have a design doc for a moderate in scope but significant in >> impact rework of how instruction execution and tracing work in gem5. This >> is something I've been thinking about for a while, but threw together just >> now to get it out there: >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IqxBYr_arZq5G51oqmXoL5I9HiiwWMQ_t-rvHA78YPE/edit?usp=sharing >> >> This is strongly informed by an earlier design doc I wrote about how >> registers are handled here: >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O_u_Xq14TgreYThuZcbM3kuXFCrKvaFHA2O9poCeHSk/edit#heading=h.r067bn3rmydo >> >> It is a lot more narrowly scoped though, focusing only on operands and >> instruction execution at the StaticInst level, but also extends beyond what >> was described in that original doc. >> >> I'm biased of course, but I think there's a lot of value in reworking >> things as described in the doc. Please take a look at let me know what you >> think. >> >> Gabe >> > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s
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