The main restriction with this design is it results in one ISA target
per board. The ISA is declared per core. To make the design simpler it's
assumed a Processor (a collection of cores) are all of the same ISA. As
each board has one processor, this also means a board is typically tied
to one ISA per simulation.
In order to remain backwards compatible and maintain the standard
library APIs, this patch adds a `--main-isa` parameter which will
determine what `gem5.runtime.get_runtime_isa` returns in cases where
mutliple ISAs are compiled in. When setting the ISA in a simulation (via
the Processor or Cores), the user may, as before, choose not to and, in
this case, the `gem5.runtime.get_runtime_isa` function is used.
The `gem5.runtime.get_runtime_isa` function is an intermediate step
which should be removed in future versions of gem5 (users should specify
precisely what ISA they want via configuration scripts). For this reason
it throws a warning when used and should not be heavily relied upon. It
is deprecated.
Change-Id: Ia76541bfa9a5a4b6b86401309281849b49dc724b
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/55423
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Maintainer: Gabe Black <gabe.black@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kokoro <noreply+kokoro@google.com>
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