[Libre-soc-dev] power-instruction-analyzer v0.2.0

[Tobias Platen]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:24:02 +0000
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:

> On 10/29/20, Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I think maturin is not really at blame for the issue with version
> > numbers, maturin develop is intended for development use (like
> > setup.py develop) when the version number is not a good indicator of
> > the exact software,
> 
> ok yes you're right, that makes a lot of sense.  do you know if they
> fixed the detection of whether distro-wide installation (but
> noncompilation by maturin) of python2.7 was sorted?  i have
> python2.7-dev installed.
> 
> > no sane person is going to update the version
> > number every they type and want to compile their code to see if their
> > latest changes work.
> 
> very sensible.
> 
> >> > Running native instruction tests requires
> >> > a POWER9 processor to test against, the file is basically the test
> >> > results, containing the calculated results for every test case.
Since I have a Talos II at home, I'll be able to run the native instruction tests.
Last week Maturin did not work on my Talos II, is the bug now fixed?
> >>
> >> which could then be compared elsewhere.
> >
> > That's the whole idea, though also that reading the output allows
> > guessing what exact spec-undefined behavior is implemented. Having the
> > output publically available allows anyone to do that without the large
> > investment required to buy their own POWER9 computer.
> 
> like it.
> 
> l.
> 
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