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So far lots of tests will download binaries inside the gem5 directory. The path is also specific to the test being run. This doesn't play well with an environment where gem5 is cloned from scratch for every build, or if several gem5 are cloned in a single machine. Binaries will be automatically downloaded every time this happens. This patch is adding a --bin-path option, so that it's possible to setup a fixed directory with all pre-downloaded binaries. By default it is set to None to preserve original behaviour. Change-Id: I42fb25e3ce0a495c73672b15a097b1bd2607795c Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Ciro Santilli <ciro.santilli@arm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/24525 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.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/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.