[Libre-soc-bugs] [Bug 485] Create I-Cache from microwatt icache.vhdl

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485

--- Comment #78 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> ---
(In reply to Cole Poirier from comment #77)
> Done.
> 
> Have the two different failure modes repro'd, obviously need to have two
> different random seeds, as in one case it will fail on first by failing an
> assertion, and on the other it will fail on first by looping infinitely.
> 
> These are the two failure modes, documented in icache.py. You'll have to
> uncomment test_icache() at the bottom of the file and comment/uncomment the
> different seeds depending on which repro case you want.

ok the next thing to do will be:

* to reduce the loop size down to the absolute minimum value that causes "fail"
* to print out those values, and manually copy them into an array (new test,
  new memory dictionary)
* to start cutting out values and repeating the test, *only* leaving in those
  values that continue to cause the failure

basically if there are 100-1000 values that cause "failure", staring at the
gtkwave file will take a huge amount of time (1,000-10,000 cycles).

if however it's 4, 8, 10 or so values, *now* it's only a few cycles in gtkwave
and the problem is easier to diagnose.

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