On 02/28/12 09:27, Gedare Bloom wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Xuhao Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Gedare, >> >> I have read your blog "a week in m5". And I have a question about m5. >> The Solaris 10 binary image for SPARC includes "reset.bin, q.bin, >> openboot.bin" etc. >> I copy *.bin and nvram1 from OpenSPARCT1_Arch.1.5/S10image/ to >> the /dist/m5/system/binaries/ directory. >> Also rename reset.bin, q.bin, and openboot.bin to reset_new.bin, q_new.bin, >> and openboot_new.bin, which are the binaries expected by the m5 SPARC_FS >> scripts. >> Then >> copy disk.s10hw2 from the S10image/ directory to the /dist/m5/system/disks/ >> directory. >> But when booting the system, it still cannot find the kernel file: >> >> info: No kernel set for full system simulation. Assuming you know what >> you're doing... >> >> Do you know the reason? Should I use the option --kernel to specify the >> kernel file? But which one is the kernel file? >> By the way, how many CPUs can gem5 run in SPARC FS mode? I know that it can >> be up to 64 CPUs in Alpha FS mode. >> Thanks. >> > It has been awhile since I worked with GEM5 so I cannot be certain; > that post is nearly 2 years old so a lot may have changed since then. > I did not have to specify a --kernel option, and the fs.py > (FSConfig.py) had all the options set to point toward the OpenBoot > binary files and example disk containing the OpenSolaris image. The > info message does not necessarily mean there is a problem, and if you > connect with m5term you might still reach the OpenBoot prompt anyway. > > When I was using the SPARC_FS only 1 core was supported. Maybe someone > has been developing this port but I am not aware. Unless you are > really committed to the SPARC architecture, I would suggest trying one > of the other CPU models. > > Good luck, > Gedare > >> ________________________________ >> >> Xuhao Chen >> >> PhD student >> >> School of Computer >> >> National University of Defense Technology >> >> Changsha, Hunan, P.R.China, 410073 >> >> Tel: +86-159-741-03340 (Mobile) > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
Also I should point out that I think image is for booting Solaris, I think, not Linux. I don't think we got SMP working for SPARC FS, but I don't really remember. Gabe _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
