Hello, great to hear that! May I ask, what is the situation with x86? Besides the Gentoo solution, present at the website, were there some efforts to bring to life some other, newer version of Linux?
Best regards, Jasmin JAHIC On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Andreas Sandberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm happy to announce that we have just completed testing of the > gem5-specific patches for Linux 4.9. The new kernel is can be downloaded > from the gem5/v4.9 branch in the arm/linux [1] repository. > > The kernel comes with default configurations for Armv7 and Armv8 and has > the same set of gem5-specific patches as the older 4.x kernels. These > patches add support for: > > * gem5's GICv2 extensions. This enables support for up to 255 CPUs if > the gem5 extensions are enabled in the GIC (set gem5_extensions to True > in your configuration script). > * A virtual DRM connector. This makes it possible to use gem5's > display models without a proper HDMI encoder model. > * The custom FBIOGET_DMABUF IOCTL. This change is useful to avoid a > CPU-side memcpy between the GPU's render buffer and the framebuffer for > Android setups that using NoMali. > * gem5's DVFS controller. > * General gem5 instrumentation. > > Cheers, > Andreas > > [1] https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/#/admin/projects/arm/linux > [2] http://gem5.org/ARM_Kernel > > 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
