2df06e292a
The 32-bit POWER reference test binary was removed in c1ebdf66f
(as a nasty surprise for POWER users).
The remaining platforms split between two approaches:
MIPS rebuilds "hello" from source.
This fails for two reasons:
1) The trivial reason is that on POWER make abends due to no makefile.
2) The more fundamental reason is that gem5 is not completely bug-free
(especially the Decoder on POWER in this case), therefore regression
testing is only possible if we have not just some hello program, but
a very particular bit sequence to serve as an immutable reference.
ARM and X86 follow the reference-bit-sequence approach. POWER will
be consistent with same. Including the sha1 for hello32,
77b27b67393311546e768b5ff35202490bad71aa, as a simple immutability
assurance. I have also renamed hello to hello32 in anticipation to
merge Sandipan's e52dbcb.
Change-Id: I77ef31349c9e50b987c6f58bb23324844527366d
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/40635
Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratik Sampat <pratik.r.sampat@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com>
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.