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It looks like this script was intended to be used to generate config.ini files from a given gem5 configuration, although some of the functions and paths it uses are quite obsolete and won't work any more, for instance m5execfile and the util/pbs directory. The currently recommended way to generate a config.ini file is to run a configurtion up to the point it would be generated and then stop it, that *will* work today, and while it's not necessarily elegant to have to run a simulation to an arbitrary point and then kill it, relying on the config.ini itself, an intermediate artifact, is also not particularly elegant. Rather than move this script to util or config, either of which would be a more appropriate home for it, and then also attempting to fix it up to work with modern gem5, where it may then still sit unused and forgotten, it's better to just delete it and rely on the other existing method. Change-Id: I1ae2842730bbe5e76549eb1d962d7d30fb5edfc0 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/45167 Reviewed-by: Daniel Carvalho <odanrc@yahoo.com.br> 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.