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Using mechanisms added in previous CLs, this change modifies the m5 utility so that it can use any of the back ends enabled and implemented by each variant, defaulting to one particular implementation if not is selected explicitly. On x86, the default mechanism is the magic address. All other variants default to the magic instruction since they don't have a well established address to use or even in most cases an implementation to use. The ability to override the particular magic address the utility wants to use (necessary on variants such as aarch64) will be added in a future CL. Change-Id: I5fc414740e30759e7dde719cddcc8d5d41f8cc74 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/27242 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Pouya Fotouhi <pfotouhi@ucdavis.edu> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.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.