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Trying to compile an ARM C hello world with arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc from Ubuntu 16.04 leads to a runtime failure with se.py: FATAL: kernel too old because the glibc tests if the kernel is at least 3.2.0, and gem5 was reporting 3.0.0. Furthermore, it is hard to obtain such toolchain at all: for example crosstool-NG currently only allows for minimum kernels above 3.2.0. 3.7.0+ was chosen to match the aarch64 value, as it is likely that the level of support will be very similar. This commit does not guarantee that full 3.7.0 is supported, but it is not likely that we had full 3.0.0 support previously either. However, it is more likely that such support will be eventually achieved if users can at least try out their programs and implement the missing system calls as they are found. Change-Id: I8df3763ae49788a6cb11cb0920e8202cd56b0f09 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/12986 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@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.