The main applications are to run baremetal programs and initramfs Linux
kernel.
Before this patch, disks() calls in makeArmSystem would throw:
IOError: Can't find file 'linux-aarch32-ael.img' on M5_PATH.
In order to achieve this, this commit also removes the default hardcoded
disk image basenames.
For example, before this commit, running without a --disk-image in X86
would automatically search for an image with basename x86root.img in
M5_PATH, which means we would either have to ignore any disk image error,
or else running without disk images would fail.
After this commit, you would have to pass --disk-image x86root.img to
achieve the old behaviour.
Change-Id: I0ae8c4b3b93d0074fd4fca0d5ed52181c50b6c04
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/27867
Tested-by: Gem5 Cloud Project GCB service account <345032938727@cloudbuild.gserviceaccount.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
All ISAs except SPARC can now take multiple disk images by passing
the --disk-image option multiple times.
Before this patch, several ISAs automatically mounted a secondary disk
called "linux-bigswap2.img", which had to be in M5_PATH even if the end
user did not want more than one disk. This was the case for for example
for X86 but not ARM.
This change was done to:
* allow ARM to have a second disk image in fs.py, which was not possible,
and allow other ISAs like X86 and ARM to take any number of disk images
* provide a simpler, more intuitive CLI interface that does not require
magic disk images to be present in M5_PATH to work for ISAs such as X86.
Linux does not need that secondary image to boot correctly, so it is
more friendly to support a minimal setup that requires the least amount
of binaries to boot, and let supply the second image manually only if
they need it.
* make fs.py --disk-image work more similarly across all ISAs
SPARC was left with a single disk only because its setup was a bit more
complex and would require further testing.
Change-Id: I8b6e08ae6daf0a5b6cd1d57d285a9677f01eb7ad
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23671
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
Python 2.7 used to return lists for operations such as map and range,
this has changed in Python 3. To make the configs Python 3 compliant,
add explicit conversions from iterators to lists where needed, replace
xrange with range, and fix changes to exec syntax.
This change doesn't fix import paths since that might require us to
restructure the configs slightly.
Change-Id: Idcea8482b286779fc98b4e144ca8f54069c08024
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/16002
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>
When the change below removed the hard coded disk name for the SPARC FS
configuration, it broke the regression which had not specified a disk name.
This change adds a default disk name so that the regression will continue to
work like it used to, but preserving the effect of this other change.
commit 86a25bbcee
Author: Jakub Jermar <jakub@jermar.eu>
Date: Tue Jul 19 09:52:46 2016 -0500
config: Allow SPARC FS image to be specified on the command line
Change-Id: Ieb317b2bf573a4f2fc435d34cccd1f246c28d84c
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2645
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
This patch enables users to speficy --os-type on the command
line. This option is used to take specific actions for an OS type,
such as changing the kernel command line. This patch is part of the
Android KitKat enablement.
This changes the default ARM system to a Versatile Express-like system that supports
2GB of memory and PCI devices and updates the default kernels/file-systems for
AArch64 ARM systems (64-bit) to support up to 32GB of memory and PCI devices. Some
platforms that are no longer supported have been pruned from the configuration files.
In addition a set of 64-bit ARM regressions have been added to the regression system.
1) Modifies Benchmarks.py to add support for Android ICS and BBench on Android ICS.
2) An rcS script is added for BBench on ICS.
3) Separates benchmark entries and rcS scripts for GB/ICS
4) Removes the debugging output from the existing BBench run script. These
print statements were used for debugging and they seemed to confuse users
into believing they should see some terminal output.
Frame buffer and boot linux:
./build/ARM_FS/m5.opt configs/example/fs.py --benchmark=ArmLinuxFrameBuf --kernel=vmlinux.touchkit
Linux from a CF card:
./build/ARM_FS/m5.opt configs/example/fs.py --benchmark=ArmLinuxCflash --kernel=vmlinux.touchkit
Run Android
./build/ARM_FS/m5.opt configs/example/fs.py --benchmark=ArmAndroid --kernel=vmlinux.android
Run MP
./build/ARM_FS/m5.opt configs/example/fs.py --benchmark=ArmLinuxCflash --kernel=vmlinux.mp-2.6.38
The disk image to use was always being forced to a particular value. This
change changes what disk image is selected as the default based on the
architecture being built. In the future, a more sophisticated system might be
used that selected a path based on certain rules instead of relying on one off
file names.
