Hi Andreas, Not sure I understand this decision/proposal. Certainly, there are some ISAs in the current repo which are not used or maintained by anyone. This might render them good candidates for removal. However, ALPHA is quite a big exception in my mind.
Surely, very few people are using ALPHA in their research and no one maintains it, yet gem5 was developed with ALPHA in mind. There might still exist assumptions baked in the current code because of how ALPHA works. I addition, I would also argue that ALPHA has a good example of ISA generation code. If not in research, it can be used in educating users about gem5. Therefore, keeping ALPHA around is reasonable to me, it can be helpful in refining the gem5 models and finding out bugs. Best regards, Alex -----Original Message----- From: gem5-dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas Hansson Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 1:50 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [gem5-dev] Removal of ALPHA from gem5 Hi all, The day has come. As previously discussed, http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3684/ removes support for ALPHA from gem5. Ultimately this has to be a community decision. Thus, if anyone is actually relying on ALPHA for their work please let us know within the next two weeks. If there are any questions or concerns, please speak up. Depending on the feedback, I aim to push this patch on November 14th. Kind regards, Andreas IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
