Hi Palle, This sounds great. Is there any chance you could create a “SPARC full-system files” bundle for http://www.gem5.org/Download and update the SPARC FS regression to use it? That way we can avoid the proprietary boot image.
Thanks, Andreas On 04/01/2016, 13:36, "gem5-dev on behalf of Palle Lyckegaard" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Steve Reinhardt wrote: > >> >> A big problem with maintaining SPARC is that the only full-system SPARC >> regression test we have uses a proprietary Solaris boot image that >>can't be >> distributed, meaning many people can't run the regression and can't >>debug >> problems when they occur. (That's why it took so long to fix the >>previous >> bug.) If you have the capability of building a simple freely >>distributable >> full-system boot test that we could integrate with our regressions, that >> would actually help a lot in terms of our ability to keep SPARC support >> from rotting away. >> > >The bits necessary for running the SPARC full-system are available here: > >http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/opensparc/index.html > >The T1 relevant stuff is here: > >http://download.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/opensparc/OpenSPARCT1_Arch. >1.5.tar.bz2 > >Based on the notes here: > >http://gedare-csphd.blogspot.dk/2010/05/week-in-m5.html > >it is possible to get gem5 SPARC full-system running. > >The only thing needed is replacing the Solaris 10 image with an image for >the relevant OS, e.g. > >ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0/sparc64/installation/miniroot/m >iniroot.fs.gz >(unzipped first..) > > or > >ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.8/sparc64/miniroot58.fs > >Same should be possible for e.g. HelenOS. > >Please note that the NetBSD 7.0 image is actually useless since no SPARC >sun4v support is available in the netbsd-7 release branch > >regards >Palle > > >_______________________________________________ >gem5-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
