Yea, but we don't want the GSoC organizers to think that we're
proposing a bunch of junk that we don't want to do. If I had time I
would actually enjoy doing a direct execution model, parallelizing m5,
or making an in-order core model. I would certainly not enjoy
benchmarking and validation.
Ali
On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:06 AM, Korey Sewell wrote:
> Also for new users or undergraduate studies, I think grunt work
> wouldn't be that bad if you can port applications that are somewhat
> interactive or provide "cool" output.
>
> Didn't someone get "DOOM" working somehow with SimpleScalar back in
> the day?
>
> Stuff that has some kind of end "prize" can be motivational for
> students just learning about computer architecture and such...
>
> And in the end, if it ends helping to grow the M5 software development
> then that's great...
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I don't know that we should keep the Benchmarking and Verification
>> section. I removed the old one because who really gets excited about
>> which can only be described as grunt work.
>>
>> Ali
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2008, at 1:27 AM, Korey Sewell wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I threw a couple of those in there as well. Looks like the
>>> Project
>>> List is filling out a bit... Only thing else I could think of
>>> personally is add the PowerPC ISA port for M5 (hasn't someone worked
>>> on that or is someone currently doing that?).
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:18 AM, nathan binkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Write some blurbs about these ideas.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Korey Sewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I added "Interface to Power Analysis tool" to the Project Ideas
>>>>> list...
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm wondering if "Benchmarking & Verification on M5" or some
>>>>> derivation of that would be relevant? The idea would be to verify
>>>>> that
>>>>> workloads and benchmarks of interest work properly on M5. This
>>>>> could
>>>>> add to some phase of our regression testing. Not sure this would
>>>>> be
>>>>> great "fun" for something to do, but it could be useful...
>>>>>
>>>>> What about Heterogenous ISA Systems?
>>>>>
>>>>> Transactional Memory? (Geoff has this but is it ready to be put
>>>>> into
>>>>> M5? Maybe someone could help him create a EXTRAS module or
>>>>> something?)
>>>>>
>>>>> Processor Models (in addition to detailed-in-order): Graphics
>>>>> Processor Model; Stream Processor Model; VLIW????
>>>>>
>>>>> That's all I can think of... Let me know if that's fine to throw
>>>>> in there...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I've re-organized things a bit. I've completely changed the
>>>>>> introduction and i'm working on what is now "other". Please
>>>>>> work on
>>>>>> turning the bullet point descriptions into a paragraphs. When you
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> please use the edit button next to the section you're working on
>>>>>> (instead of editing the whole page), so that we don't step on
>>>>>> each
>>>>>> others changes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ali
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mar 11, 2008, at 10:43 PM, nathan binkert wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The intro text needs to be changed significantly. It looks way
>>>>>>> too
>>>>>>> much like the mercurial text.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Korey Sewell
>>>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I did some light work on the GSOC page setting it up more
>>>>>>>> similar to
>>>>>>>> the Mercurial style.
>>>>>>>> - I added a light M5 introduction
>>>>>>>> - Added Mentors List
>>>>>>>> - Starting "Getting Things Done" Section...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The Project Ideas list still needs to be done more in the
>>>>>>>> Mercurial
>>>>>>>> style and the Getting Things Done section probably should be
>>>>>>>> added as
>>>>>>>> well...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I hope what I did helps the cause a bit!...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:15 PM, nathan binkert
>>>>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> For the "ideas" page, you could just list out device models
>>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>>> would be interesting. I see Flash Memory device, but if you
>>>>>>>>>> guys
>>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>>> are familiar working with devices in M5 know of things off
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> top of
>>>>>>>>>> your head that seems like a list that may be able to be
>>>>>>>>>> populated
>>>>>>>>>> rather quickly.
>>>>>>>>> If you have something in mind, go ahead and add it.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Also, how closely do we want to mirror Mercurial's style for
>>>>>>>>>> Summer of
>>>>>>>>>> Code 2008? If we are using this as a guide, we would need a
>>>>>>>>>> separate
>>>>>>>>>> introduction section for M5 & GSOC (like Ali said) and also
>>>>>>>>>> each
>>>>>>>>>> individual topic might not 1-3 sentences descrribing them as
>>>>>>>>>> opposed
>>>>>>>>>> to bullet points.
>>>>>>>>> I like their style personally.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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