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These namespaces were used to set up an environment/context where there was an implicit guest namespace. This is an issue when there may be multiple guest endiannesses which might be different. In cases where we don't know what the guest endianness is, we can't rely on it being an implicit part of our context since that would be ambiguous. In cases where we do know, for instance in ISA specific code, we can just use the endianness specific version that's appropriate for that context. This also (somewhat) removes the assumption that there is a single endianness that applies for a particular ISA. Practically speaking this assumption will probably still stand though, since there would likely be a non-trivial performance penalty to apply a configurable endianness instead of a fixed one the compiler can optomize/remove. Change-Id: I2dff338b58726d724f387388efe32d9233885680 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/22374 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Reviewed-by: Giacomo Travaglini <giacomo.travaglini@arm.com> Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.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/Introduction, and for more information about building the simulator and getting started please see http://www.gem5.org/Documentation and http://www.gem5.org/Tutorials. 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/Dependencies 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/Build_System for more details and options. With the simulator built, have a look at http://www.gem5.org/Running_gem5 for more information on how to use gem5. 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. Please see the gem5 download page for these items at http://www.gem5.org/Download If you have questions, please send mail to gem5-users@gem5.org Enjoy using gem5 and please share your modifications and extensions.