From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 15:00:11 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Re: [libre-riscv-dev] Scoreboard vs Tomasulo X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c2bf4b89508f73142d837332380ea94e30adb4c2;p=libre-riscv-dev.git Re: [libre-riscv-dev] Scoreboard vs Tomasulo --- diff --git a/b5/03f6f14af8ab146732605b6fe68cb5be204cc4 b/b5/03f6f14af8ab146732605b6fe68cb5be204cc4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b01b945 --- /dev/null +++ b/b5/03f6f14af8ab146732605b6fe68cb5be204cc4 @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +Return-path: +Envelope-to: publicinbox@libre-riscv.org +Delivery-date: Sat, 16 May 2020 16:00:36 +0100 +Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=libre-riscv.org) + by libre-soc.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) + (envelope-from ) + id 1jZyIl-0001RZ-5V; Sat, 16 May 2020 16:00:35 +0100 +Received: from lkcl.net ([217.147.94.29]) + by libre-soc.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) + (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1jZyIj-0001RN-PZ + for 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