Re: [Simulavr-devel] test mechanism

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Thomas,

On Tue Aug 25 13:26 , Thomas Klepp  sent:

>now I have time to answer.

>
>> In any case, the more general questions are what is to be development
>> protocol and will it change while I am working on something messy.
>
>Yes, that's really a question. But I can't answer this. Nobody from 
>sinulavr maintainers has given a statement, what's the way to future. 
>Stay on CVS, maybe backport changes from git (but this is now a lot of 
>changes) or switch to git or whatelse.
>
>>> My question points to that, that in git repo we use a derived class from 
>>> RWMemoryMember, called IOReg. Your code would work too for registers, 
>> 
>> This is different from the CVS version?
>
>Yes, IOReg gives a connection between hardware units and rw memory 
>array. Before you had external RWMemoryMember classes, which connect 
>memory array to hardware unit. Now IOReg registers are member of the 
>hardware units.
>
>Before it was (for example):
>
>rw[0x63] = new RWPin(this, portg);
>
>Now it's coded as:
>
>rw[0x63] = &portg->pin_reg;
>
>I think, this idea from Onno is easier to understand and easier for 
>changes and maintainance.

It's not obvious to me that the IOReg way is better.
I'll do some reading before making a more definitive statement.

What are the other important differences between the CVS and git versions?

>> I made sbi and cbi virtual so they could be overridden.
>> 
>> Whose git repo is "git repo"?
>
>Yep, also a good question. :-) My repo is a fork of Onno's, but we have 
>agreed, that's not a good idea to have more than one. The most of 
>reasons are connected, how this forks can be synchronized, the best is, 
>to get it fully synchronized. But for that it's not necessary to have 
>forks. But Onno is busy with other things and so I have made some 
>development on my fork. The plan is, if Onno have time, to sync my fork 
>to Onno's repo and then to delete my fork. In the moment, my master 
>branch is younger (and more current) than Onno's.

Then from my point of view, your git repo.

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