Hello, thank you. We will try this.
Best regards, Jasmin JAHIC On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Jason Lowe-Power <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jasmin, > > See http://www.lowepower.com/jason/setting-up-gem5-fv4.14- > rc3ull-system.html > <http://www.lowepower.com/jason/setting-up-gem5-full-system.html> for an > example of what I've done. > > You can simply compile a kernel and build a disk image. It really isn't > much harder than that. There are two gotchas: 1) making sure to compile > without modules (compile all needed drivers into the kernel) and 2) > disabling drivers that break gem5. There is a link on that page to a config > file that has worked for me in the past. I've also successfully built and > run v4.14-rc3 recently. > > The only other problem that I've run into is getting the init/startup > process working correctly to get the gem5init script working. However, this > is orthogonal to any gem5 issues. It's just that Ubuntu is using upstart > (or whatever they are using now) and that is *incredibly* difficult to use. > > Hope this helps! > > Cheers, > Jason > > ----------- > Jason Lowe-Power > Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department > University of California, Davis > 3049 Kemper Hall > https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/lowepower/ > > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:44 PM Jasmin Jahic <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
