I'm going to be gone starting on Wednesday until Sept. 6th, so I won't  
have a chance to take a look at the regression errors before hand.   
I'll try to take a look when I come back.

Kevin

Quoting Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
>  From the release notes the following are still outstanding for a 2.0
> release. I don't really care about the Cygwin problems and I'm not
> sure that anyone else does, so I move to strike those. Additionally,
> we made the repository public so that one is gone.
>
> I think the three things that need to be fixed are:
> O3 CPU -- SMT SE regression hits an assert; bug causing perlbmk to
> fail (Gabe reported this in April 2007 and I don't know if it's still
> a problem http://www.m5sim.org/flyspray/task/221); NACKs/coherence
> messages
>
> Statistics -- The CPU statistics are confusing. I think the idle time
> in the simple CPU can still be wrong after a CPU switch and it's at
> least not clear to me which idles mean quiesced time or idle because
> of other things (blocked in the O3 case, not switched out in the
> simple case); The bus needs statistics; I don't know if the cache
> statistics are reasonable.
>
> Testing -- I've at least done a fair amount of testing over the last
> month or two, so I'm pretty happy with that. I think some validation
> needs to be done on an statistics changes though.
>
> Ali
>
>
>
> 1. Fix O3 CPU bug in SE 40.perlbmk fails
> 2. Fix O3 processing nacks/coherence messages
> 3. Better statistics for the caches.
> 4. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin
> 5. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin
> 6. Make repository public
> 7. Testing
> 8. Validation
>
>
> On Aug 24, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ali Saidi wrote:
>
>> Everyone should hold off pushing patches to the dev tree for the next
>> two weeks so we can create a new stable release. Please only push
>> fixes to known problems and test the repository in the next two weeks.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ali
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