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Description
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Changeset 11221:c2320ba3e365
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dev, arm: Add gem5 extensions to support more than 8 cores

Previous ARM-based simulations were limited to 8 cores due to
limitations in GICv2 and earlier. This changeset adds a set of
gem5-specific extensions that enable support for up to 256 cores.

When the gem5 extensions are enabled, the GIC uses CPU IDs instead of
a CPU bitmask in the GIC's register interface. To OS can enable the
extensions by setting bit 0x200 in ICDICTR.

This changeset is based on previous work by Matt Evans.


Diffs
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  src/dev/arm/gic_pl390.hh c0ea80fed78f 
  src/dev/arm/gic_pl390.cc c0ea80fed78f 

Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3232/diff/


Testing
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Thanks,

Andreas Sandberg

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