Gabe Black has uploaded this change for review. ( https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/52106 )

Change subject: sim: Remove the byte_order parameter from System.
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sim: Remove the byte_order parameter from System.

Instead, get the byte order from the workload. The workload has a better
idea what the byte order should be, for instance based on what software
it's loaded or how the hardware was configured, and this gets rid of a
use of TARGET_ISA which was setting a default endianness.

Change-Id: Ic5d8a6f69a664957c4f837e3799ff93397ccfc64
---
M src/sim/system.hh
M src/sim/System.py
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)



diff --git a/src/sim/System.py b/src/sim/System.py
index 115fb94..596e25c 100644
--- a/src/sim/System.py
+++ b/src/sim/System.py
@@ -49,11 +49,6 @@
 class MemoryMode(Enum): vals = ['invalid', 'atomic', 'timing',
                                 'atomic_noncaching']

-if buildEnv['TARGET_ISA'] in ('sparc', 'power'):
-    default_byte_order = 'big'
-else:
-    default_byte_order = 'little'
-
 class System(SimObject):
     type = 'System'
     cxx_header = "sim/system.hh"
@@ -96,9 +91,6 @@

     cache_line_size = Param.Unsigned(64, "Cache line size in bytes")

-    byte_order = Param.ByteOrder(default_byte_order,
-                                 "Default byte order of system components")
-
     redirect_paths = VectorParam.RedirectPath([], "Path redirections")

exit_on_work_items = Param.Bool(False, "Exit from the simulation loop when "
diff --git a/src/sim/system.hh b/src/sim/system.hh
index 7aeeea7..8f09b96 100644
--- a/src/sim/system.hh
+++ b/src/sim/system.hh
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@
     ByteOrder
     getGuestByteOrder() const
     {
-        return params().byte_order;
+        return workload->byteOrder();
     }

     /**

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Gerrit-Change-Id: Ic5d8a6f69a664957c4f837e3799ff93397ccfc64
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