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The main change is to remove vector registers from the GDB stub. Those registers were intended for SVE, which is a new architecture feature and not yet treated by default on the GDB present in Ubuntu 18.04, and possibly not even on GDB master. As a result, aarch64 GDB stub connections would fail with: Remote 'g' packet reply is too long The correct way to support those registers is to send XML GDB target description files to the client. This feature is not yet available for any architecture, and should be implemented in future patches. Other smaller fixes are: * cpsr is uint32_t in aarch64 as well as arm * use M5_ATTR_PACKED on the register structs since they are being cast and sent as byte arrays Change-Id: I77cd8a98e322ecc60799e5b11fe5cd414d893cc7 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/14495 Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com>
This is the gem5 simulator. The main website can be found at http://www.gem5.org A good starting point is http://www.gem5.org/Introduction, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/Documentation and http://www.gem5.org/Tutorials. To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang, Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, SWIG, zlib, m4, and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies for more details concerning the minimum versions of the aforementioned tools. Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons build/<ARCH>/gem5.opt' where ARCH is one of ALPHA, ARM, NULL, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, or X86. This will build an optimized version of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) for the the specified architecture. See http://www.gem5.org/Build_System for more details and options. With the simulator built, have a look at http://www.gem5.org/Running_gem5 for more information on how to use gem5. The basic source release includes these subdirectories: - configs: example simulation configuration scripts - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5 - src: source code of the gem5 simulator - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems - tests: regression tests - util: useful utility programs and files To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled system firmware (console and PALcode for Alpha), kernel binaries and one or more disk images. Please see the gem5 download page for these items at http://www.gem5.org/Download If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.