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The AuxVector class is responsible for holding Process data. The data that it holds is normally setup by an OS kernel in the process address space. The purpose behind doing this is to pass in information that the process will need for various reasons. (Check out the enum in the header file for an idea of what the AuxVector holds.) The AuxVector struct was changed into a class and encapsulation methods were added to protect access to the member variables. The host ISA may have a different endianness than the simulated ISA. Since data is passed between the process address space and the simulator for auxiliary vectors, we need to worry about maintaining endianness for the right context. Change-Id: I32c5ac4b679559886e1efeb4b5483b92dfc94af9 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/12109 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Anthony Gutierrez <anthony.gutierrez@amd.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.