handcar_cosim.so is too big

[hanfeng0114]

Currently handcar_cosim.so is pushed into the force-riscv repo directly. The binary file is too big. Start this issue to discuss possible maintenance policy like submodule? Call for more discussions.

[MikeOpenHWGroup]

Yes, 97M is a little big. :smile:

Perhaps we can create a Makefile rule to allow users to compile it from source? We do that for the dpi_dasm shared object in CORE-V-VERIF. (Although because that so is only 9.7M we also include it in the repo.)

[hanfeng0114]

Start with some possible solutions: 1.google-repo (one multi-repo management solution which is used for android project maintenance), which is T-HEAD XUANTIE's inhouse solution 2.git submodule: an easy solution to attach one repo in another repo 3.mix with git submodule and google-repo: we may include other repo like riscv-opcode which helps spike development

[hanfeng0114]

Will start a meeting recently about this issue. @MikeOpenHWGroup @DBees @rchu-futurewei