Great work!

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Korey Sewell <ksew...@umich.edu> wrote:
> For 1-4 wide, InOrder Cores running in ALPHA FS mode... Observe terminal
> output:
> "M5 console: m5AlphaAccess @ 0xFFFFFD0200000000
> Got Configuration 623
> memsize 8000000 pages 4000
> First free page after ROM 0xFFFFFC0000018000
> HWRPB 0xFFFFFC0000018000 l1pt 0xFFFFFC0000040000 l2pt 0xFFFFFC0000042000
> l3pt_rpb 0xFFFFFC0000044000 l3pt_kernel 0xFFFFFC0000048000 l2reserv
> 0xFFFFFC0000046000
> kstart = 0xFFFFFC0000310000, kend = 0xFFFFFC0000855898, kentry =
> 0xFFFFFC0000310000, numCPUs = 0x1
> CPU Clock at 2000 MHz IntrClockFrequency=1024
> Booting with 1 processor(s)
> ...
> Linux version 2.6.13 (h...@zed.eecs.umich.edu) (gcc version 3.4.3) #1 SMP
> Sun Oct 8 ..
> Brought up 1 CPUs
> ...
> init started:  BusyBox v1.1.0 (2007.03.04-01:07+0000) multi-call binary
> mounting filesystems...
> EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
> loading script...
> "*
> **Two Words: "Yes Sir!"
>
> *More Than Two Words: InOrder is booting Linux!!!
>
> Getting to this point took about >30 patches, so I have a lot of
> patch-cleaning work to do before I can place it in the repo.
>
> Also, just because it boots doesn't mean I've tested it with any kind of
> real workload suite (e.g. SPEC or Parsec).  I don't have the bandwidth to
> complete stress test through all the benchmarks and test but if someone
> tries and something goes wrong, please post to the mailing list and I'll do
> my best to help you debug.
>
> Either way, I think this is a good milestone and I'll be adding the patches
> and the regression test for ALPHA_FS/10.linux_boot/InOrder-CPU within the
> next week (or two) and then eventually updating more things in our
> handy-dandy M5 status matrix:
> http://m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Status_Matrix
>
> The next big thing I want to get in InOrder before the "gem5" official merge
> is complete is timing TLB translation and in the longer term microcode
> support. I can't say exactly when those will be added (again, not enough
> time for me to completely focus on this), but if anyone wants to try I have
> a good idea of what needs to be done and can assist.
>
> --
> - Korey
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