On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Gabriel Michael Black <
gbl...@eecs.umich.edu> wrote:

>
> You should also be sure to test starting from a checkpoint which I
> believe is different from a switchover, although I'm not sure.


It shouldn't be different from O3's perspective; we always restore from a
checkpoint into a SimpleCPU model and then switch over to O3, since you
can't directly restore a SimpleCPU checkpoint into and O3 model.


> I've
> done things in the past that seem fine and pass regressions but break
> that mechanism. Speaking of which, since I and potentially others
> don't know off hand how to use checkpointing (still!), we should
> probably make a regression to test those. I know we've agreed on that
> before, but this is another case where it would be good to have so I
> thought I'd bring it up.


Agreed, absolutely.

Steve
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