The problem here is that you're not providing a default, you're providing a description. If there is only one parameter, it is the description. If there are two, it is the default followed by the description.
One of those, "how did it ever work?" Nate On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Gabe Black <gbl...@eecs.umich.edu> wrote: > I fixed the first problem which I would consider legitimate (specifying > NULL explicitly is better), but now I'm having the same problem with a > parameter I -have- provided a default value for. I'm assuming when I get > the message: > > fatal: root.family without default or user set value > > that it's complaining about the following from my Intel MP table stuff: > > class X86IntelMPProcessor(X86IntelMPBaseConfigEntry): > type = 'X86IntelMPProcessor' > cxx_class = 'X86ISA::IntelMP::Processor' > > local_apic_id = Param.UInt8(0, 'local APIC id') > local_apic_version = Param.UInt8(0, > 'bits 0-7 of the local APIC version register') > enable = Param.Bool(True, 'if this processor is usable') > bootstrap = Param.Bool(False, 'if this is the bootstrap processor') > > stepping = Param.UInt8(0) > model = Param.UInt8(0) > family = Param.UInt8(0) > > feature_flags = Param.UInt32(0, 'flags returned by the CPUID > instruction') > > That's the only occurrence of the string "family" in any .py file in the > repository. It does have a default value of 0, so I'm not sure what the > problem is. Maybe the check is getting a false positive? If you want to > try this yourself, just stick a default NULL on line 97 of > arch/x86/bios/ACPI.py. The kernel I use is on zizzer at > /dist/m5/system/binaries/x86_64-vmlinux-2.6.22.9. I'm uploading the disk > image to /dist/m5/system/disks/x86root.img, but that will be a while > yet. You probably won't get far enough to need those anyway, though. > > Gabe > > nathan binkert wrote: >>> What's the syntax to set something to NULL by default? That's actually >>> what I want in this case, I think. I tried using "None" but apparently >>> that's not right. >>> >> >> There's actually a special parameter called NULL. :) Just use it. >> >> Nate >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-dev mailing list >> m5-dev@m5sim.org >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > m5-dev@m5sim.org > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list m5-dev@m5sim.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
