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All ISAs except SPARC can now take multiple disk images by passing the --disk-image option multiple times. Before this patch, several ISAs automatically mounted a secondary disk called "linux-bigswap2.img", which had to be in M5_PATH even if the end user did not want more than one disk. This was the case for for example for X86 but not ARM. This change was done to: * allow ARM to have a second disk image in fs.py, which was not possible, and allow other ISAs like X86 and ARM to take any number of disk images * provide a simpler, more intuitive CLI interface that does not require magic disk images to be present in M5_PATH to work for ISAs such as X86. Linux does not need that secondary image to boot correctly, so it is more friendly to support a minimal setup that requires the least amount of binaries to boot, and let supply the second image manually only if they need it. * make fs.py --disk-image work more similarly across all ISAs SPARC was left with a single disk only because its setup was a bit more complex and would require further testing. Change-Id: I8b6e08ae6daf0a5b6cd1d57d285a9677f01eb7ad Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/23671 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.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 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/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.