Development

Meeting Notes

• Meeting Notes May 16, 2007

Design Issues

General areas with unresolved design issues should be put here.

General

• Heterogeneous System Support
• ISA-Specific Compilation
• Bad names

Alpha

• Alpha Dependencies

SPARC

• Register windows
• SPARC Architecture Nasties
• Branch delay slots

X86

• x86 decoder
• x86 microcode system

Documentation

Documentation which is useful for developing m5, as apposed to using it, should go here. These might actually be better off in the main documentation section as long as they describe something stable.

• New Memory Model
• Full system code locations
• microcode assembler

Random Bits

• Things that aren't really documented anywhere
• Summer student tasks

Programming Bugs

• Ref counted pointers and STL