We're having our meeting tomorrow. Topic: What are we going to do to make some progress? Tim tech-config Configuration Structure Group call WhenMon Nov 23, 2020 8am – 9am Pacific Time - Los Angeles Wh

The following files have been updated in the Files area of the tech-config@... group. //2020 Meetings/Meeting Minutes.pdf By: Abner Chang Description: Meeting minutes of 10/12

We have our regular meeting this Monday at 8am pacific. We messed with our clocks since last meeting, so double check the calendar/your favorite time zone tool. I don't have much of an agenda since I

Last week's meeting we were wondering how big the structure is as a plain C struct. On RV32 it's 492 bytes. On RV64 it's 736 bytes. This does not include information about how long each list is, but a

I've pushed some protobuf and custom encoding stuff to https://github.com/riscv/configuration-structure. Now both examples use the exact same input file so we can actually do a fair comparison. I test

At last week's meeting several of us promised to dig up available resources "when the first updateable RISC-V (or other platform) instruction executes." For SiFive boards, these are: PlatformRAMROMClo

Hi all! We'll have our regular meeting Monday morning, 8am Pacific. We'll talk about sizes of structures, code, and available memories, plus whatever else you think is important. See you there! Tim te

The following files have been updated in the Files area of the tech-config@... group. //2020 Meetings/Meeting Minutes.pdf By: Abner Chang Description: Meeting minutes of 10/12

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the tech-config@... group. /2020 Meetings/2020-10-12 Configuration Structure Task Group Slides.pdf By: Tim Newsome

Hi all! We'll have our regular meeting this Monday, at 8am Pacific. We'll be discussing what kind of resources we can expect e.g. BIOS to have to parse the structure. Hopefully I'll also get to show o

The following files have been updated in the Files area of the tech-config@... group. //2020 Meetings/Meeting Minutes.pdf By: Abner Chang Description: Meeting minutes of 9/28

Following up on Monday's meeting, I wanted to write a concrete example using protobuf and enums/constants. Specifically, in the meeting I had the impression that protobuf lets you define constants, wh

https://eng.uber.com/trip-data-squeeze-json-encoding-compression/ has some nice graphs comparing various binary formats and compression. Protobuf with Snappy seems to perform quite well. Obviously the

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the tech-config@... group. /2020 Meetings/2020-09-28 Configuration Structure Task Group Slides.pdf By: Tim Newsome

We're having our usual meeting on Monday, at the usual time (8am Pacific). We'll probably talk a bit more about access methods, and then I have some questions about protobuf and how we can make it com

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the tech-config@... group. /2020 Meetings/2020-09-14 Configuration Structure Task Group Slides.pdf By: Tim Newsome

I’ve promised for a few meetings that I’d show a real-world (HiFive Unleashed) example for debug triggers. Here it is. I moved away from my previous range/mask description. That is compact, but it’s a

Hi all! As we've discussed several times, this group is partially in a holding pattern until the profiles group gets a human readable format more specified. That group is trying to get started, but st

The following files have been uploaded to the Files area of the tech-config@... group. /2020 Meetings/Meeting Minutes.pdf By: renba.chang@... Description: Meeting minutes of 9/14

We had a good meeting today talking through a number of options and details. It was, however, lightly attended, so I want to share what we concluded here. If any of this is unclear (likely) or you hav