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:gem5-dev-boun...@gem5.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Hansson
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 1:50 PM
To: gem5-dev@gem5.org; gem5-us...@gem5.org
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
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