First monthly gem5 developers meeting today! Oct 12th '23

[powerjg]

We will be hosting the first monthly gem5 developer's meeting October 12 on zoom at 9am PT.

Join via this link

The agenda is shown below. We invite everyone in the gem5 community to join. The discussion will be focused on gem5 development. Specifically, we will discuss ongoing development projects, synchronize on shared development projects, and discuss the short-term development goals.

If you would like to add anything to the agenda please create a comment below or reach out to Jason (@powerjg; [email protected]).

Agenda

• Introductions
• Current project status
• Updates on github workflow
  • Overview of how to use github
  • Things that are going really well:
  • Things that could be going better
• gem5 development discussions
  • Recent Arm improvements
  • Recent AMD GPU improvements
  • Recent RISC-V RVV improvements
  • Incoming changes for fetch-directed prefetching
    • cpu: Fetch Directed Instruction Prefetching (FDIP) #355
    • Decoupled front end #359
  • Incoming changes to gem5's build system (kconfig)
    • scons: Change to Kconfig build system #69
• (if time) Community discussions
  • Pre-commit updates
  • clang-format
  • removing change-id
  • removing tags
  • merge queue
• Items from the floor

Meeting slides:
2023-10-12 monthly meeting.pdf

[BobbyRBruce]

A recording of this meeting can be round here: https://youtu.be/bfpeo5-5ijI?si=l9ua3sf6RRdjLeT6

Here is a copy of the slides:

• slides.pptx
• slides.pdf