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These are no longer split out and shared in the root build/ directory. This does result in a small amount of overhead from building redundant copies of these files, although the overhead is not significant. When building 7 different variants of gem5, all the ISAs and NULL, the difference on my machine was: Before: real 41m25.372s user 914m22.266s sys 41m51.816s After: real 42m38.074s user 921m36.852s sys 43m2.949s This is about a 2-3% difference, which is a worse than typical case, since the overhead scales with the number of variants being built. The benefit of pulling ext/ into the variant directory is that there can now be a single config which applies to all files used to build gem5, and that config is represented by the variant of gem5 being built. Change-Id: I6f0db97c63a7f3e252e7e351aa862340978e701b Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/56750 Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com> Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.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, 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 these tools. Once you have all dependencies resolved, type 'scons build/<CONFIG>/gem5.opt' where CONFIG is one of the options in build_opts like ARM, NULL, MIPS, POWER, SPARC, X86, Garnet_standalone, etc. This will build an optimized version of the gem5 binary (gem5.opt) with the the specified configuration. See http://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building for more details and options. The main source tree includes these subdirectories: - build_opts: pre-made default configurations for gem5 - build_tools: tools used internally by gem5's build process. - configs: example simulation configuration scripts - ext: less-common external packages needed to build gem5 - include: include files for use in other programs - site_scons: modular components of the build system - 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 may need compiled system firmware, kernel binaries and one or more disk images, depending on gem5's configuration and what type of workload you're trying to run. Many of those resources can be downloaded from http://resources.gem5.org, and/or from the git repository here: https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5-resources/ If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.