Hi, I am a senior at Colorado State University working with two other students under Dr. Sudeep Pasricha on a senior design project. We have created a GUI to aid in configuring gem5 simulations.
It currently supports a variety of command line options which are supplied to the se.py and fs.py scripts. We are beginning to implement some exploration functionality, so that on any particular parameter, a user could specify multiple options for which a simulation would run for each. One of the most important advantages this GUI brings is a reduction to the learning curve to using gem5, as well as a huge aid in debugging configuration options. It has many simple error checks to prevent simple mistakes. We would like to contribute this project open-source to the gem5 community, and wanted to see what your thoughts are on integrating it with gem5. We believe there are two different routes we can take: Option 1 would be to push our code to the gem5 repository. If this is an acceptable option, what is a good way to proceed with this? Option 2 would be to have our code run completely independent of gem5 (the user would specify as an option where they have downloaded gem5 code, or we release it as a patch for gem5). If this were the case, is there a good way for us to market this to the gem5 community? What are your thoughts on the above two options? Thanks, Marcus Johnson _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list gem5-dev@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
