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This adds the definition of the Machine State Register (MSR) in preparation for multi-mode support. The MSR has bits that define the state of the processor. This defines all the bitfields and sets the ones that are typically used for userspace environments. In preparation for multi-mode support, the SF and LE bits are used by instructions to check if the simulation is running in 64-bit mode and if memory accesses are to be performed in little endian byte order respectively. This introduces changes in areas such as target address computation for branch instructions, carry and overflow computation for arithmetic instructions, etc. Change-Id: If9ac69415ca85b0c873bd8579e7d1bd2219eac62 Signed-off-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/40943 Reviewed-by: Boris Shingarov <shingarov@labware.com> Maintainer: Boris Shingarov <shingarov@labware.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.