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The x86 version is basically just a specialization of the base IO port version of the QEMU firmware configuration device, with the port addresses set for x86. The E820 entry type is x86 specific, and is a way to pass an E820 memory map to firmware which doesn't have another way to figure out where memory is. This would be for firmware like SeaBIOS which is itself responsible for publishing an E820 map, but it needs somewhere to get that information from in the first place. This mechanism is one it supports natively. This entry type reuses the E820Entry SimObjects which were defined a long time ago for passing to a Linux FS workload. It doesn't use their ability to write themselves out to guest memory, and just uses them as a transport for their address, size and type properties. Change-Id: Ifff214f5fc10bd7d0a2a0acddad4fc00dd65f67d Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/55628 Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com> Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com> Maintainer: 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.