It's great to see that somebody is still using SPARC since implementing it was my first experience with gem5 way back when. I would have been a little sad to see it go away, and I'm glad to know it's still useful.
Gabe On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Palle Lyckegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > will try when I get the time to do it > > On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Andreas Hansson wrote: > > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 11:22:52 >> From: Andreas Hansson <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: gem5 Developer List <[email protected]> >> To: gem5 Developer List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [gem5-dev] SPARC FS emulation stopped working after >> rebuilding >> from latest sources >> >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
