Wow, this is a nice surprise! Thanks! I'll try and take a look at the code and give you feedback, but it might not be right away.
BTW, you might find this interesting: http://www.m5sim.org/flyspray/task/18. It's actually been on our "to do" list even longer... I think the date is just when we set up the bug database. Steve On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Timothy M Jones<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Over the last few weeks I've been working on an implementation of the > PowerPC ISA for M5. Attached is a patch for it. I realise as I'm writing > this that I should have probably said in advance that I was doing this, but > there we go. It's done now. > > What it can do: > > * Execute PowerPC binaries on AtomicSimpleCPU. > * Run SpecINT 2000 binaries (when combined with additional system call > patches which I'll attach separately). > > What it can't do: > > * Floating point instructions. I'm hoping to work on that over the next > couple of weeks. > * O3CPU execution. Well, I haven't tried to be honest, but again, I'm hoping > to get this working too. > * Full system mode. > > I've based it all on the ARM ISA simply because I've worked with this ISA > before and know a bit about it. However, there may be some code in there > that is not relevant to PowerPC, but specific to ARM. I haven't done a > thorough check, just enough to get things working. > > To use it you can build a POWERPC_SE executable. For this I also include my > file from in build_opts. > > If you think that this is useful then I'm more than happy for it to be > incorporated into the main M5 repository. That said, I'm aware that it might > not be able to be incorporated in its current form. If there are any > changes, additions or anything you'd like me to put in, then please just let > me know. > > Also, if there are questions about it then I'm more than happy to answer > them. I'm sure this email doesn't go into enough detail, but I wasn't sure > how much or what to say about this so I figured that people could ask what > they don't know. > > I'll now send the system call patches one by one since they are independent > of the ISA. > > Cheers > Tim > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > > TARGET_ISA = 'powerpc' > FULL_SYSTEM = 0 > CPU_MODELS = 'AtomicSimpleCPU' > > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
