The function had been introduced in the past when we needed to
instantiate either an ArmSystem or a LinuxArmSystem depending on the
workload. Now that the workload object has been introduced in gem5, we
always instantiate an ArmSystem in FS mode, hence we don't need a
function to generate the System object
Change-Id: I79ccf31087b84521cce32da71bc835ff202dc432
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/43285
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
The baremetal platform is the platform we use for running
user supplied binaries on baremetal hardware.
(simply put, it runs provided binaries without adding
a gem5 bootloader)
Some layers of this software stack might not have a pci driver.
This might be the case for firmware images like edkII
which needs to use a block device to extract the bootloader
and/or the kernel image. Those can use the memory mapped
(in host domain) virtio block device which is already
part of the VExpress_GEM5 platforms
Change-Id: I9c6ba7e1b4566a3999fd9ba20a2bebe191dc3ef8
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/39995
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Cooper <richard.cooper@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Information about what kernel to load and how to load it was built
into the System object and its subclasses. That overloaded the System
object and made it responsible for too many things, and also was
somewhat awkward when working with SE mode which doesn't have a kernel.
This change extracts the kernel and information related to it from the
System object and puts into into a OsKernel or Workload object.
Currently the idea of a "Workload" to run and a kernel are a bit
muddled, an unfortunate carry-over from the original code. It's also an
implication of trying not to make too sweeping of a change, and to
minimize the number of times configs need to change, ie avoiding
creating a "kernel" parameter which would shortly thereafter be
renamed to "workload".
In future changes, the ideas of a kernel and a workload will be
disentangled, and workloads will be expanded to include emulated
operating systems which shephard and contain Process-es for syscall
emulation.
This change was originally split into pieces to make reviewing it
easier. Those reviews are here:
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22243
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24144
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24145
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24146
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24147
https: //gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24286
Change-Id: Ia3d863db276a023b6a2c7ee7a656d8142ff75589
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/26466
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
