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The System class has a few different arrays of values which each correspond to a thread of execution based on their position. This change collects them together into a single class to make managing them easier and less error prone. It also collects methods for manipulating those threads as an API for that class. This class acts as a collection point for thread based state which the System class can look into to get at all its state. It also acts as an interface for interacting with threads for other classes. This forces external consumers to use the API instead of accessing the individual arrays which improves consistency. Change-Id: Idc4575c5a0b56fe75f5c497809ad91c22bfe26cc Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/25144 Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu> Maintainer: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.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/about, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/documentation and http://www.gem5.org/documentation/learning_gem5/introduction. 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/documentation/general_docs/building 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 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/documentation/general_docs/building for more details and options. 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. If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.