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gem5art is a utility to help manage the artifacts used in gem5 experiments, the output from those experiments, and running the experiments in parallel (artifacts, run, and tasks packages respectively). The current documentation can be found on readthedocs [1], but we are planning on migrating this to the gem5 website very soon [2]. More information on the motivation and design was discussed at the gem5 workshop last summer. See the blog post [3] for more details. The current version (v1.3.1) is already deployed on PyPI, and you can install it with `pip install gem5art-artifact gem5art-run gem5art-tasks` Once this is merged, we will update the PyPI version to match the version in gem5 (v1.4.0). The only differences are mostly documentation based (pointers to the documentation and source), but we have also updated the style to strictly match PEP8 with black [4]. gem5art is a *utility* to use with gem5. So, we expect that the versioning and release schedule will not necessarily match gem5's (hence a separate versioning structure and separate RELEASE-NOTES, etc.). [1]: https://gem5art.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [2]: https://www.gem5.org/documentation/gem5art [3]: http://www.gem5.org/2020/05/26/gem5art.html [4]: https://github.com/psf/black Change-Id: Ic8af63edf0cb7df4693a46413f7278a3e8ac6846 Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/42121 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> Reviewed-by: Bobby R. Bruce <bbruce@ucdavis.edu> Reviewed-by: Ayaz Akram <yazakram@ucdavis.edu> Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <power.jg@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.