I have been able to call m5 exit from within an Android app using:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/sbin/m5 exit");
There is a "clean" version of ICS up at gem5.org/bbench-gem5 . I will
announce this on the list once I have an image with BBench on it.
-Tony
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Ira Ray Jenkins <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Anthony Gutierrez <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> The browser's homepage was manually set to the bbench start page. There
> is
> >> a way to open the browser and set it to a certain page, e.g., am start
> -a
> >> android.intent.action.VIEW -d http://gem5.org but this doesn't work
> for
> >> local pages, i.e., file:/// instead of http://. For some reason the
> intent
> >> is not recognized by the browser. You can look at the browser's manifest
> >> file and see if you can get it work with file:/// by messing with the
> intent
> >> filters. I briefly looked into this but wasn't successful. If anyone
> else
> >> knows how to open a local page in the Android browser from the command
> line
> >> that would be useful.
> >
> >
> > Acutally, looking in the ICS file system, it seems as though they've
> changed
> > this so you can view local web pages. From around line 99 of
> > packages/apps/Browser/AndroidManifest.xml
> >
> > <!-- For viewing saved web archives. -->
> > <intent-filter>
> > <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
> > <category
> android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"
> > />
> > <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"
> />
> > <data android:scheme="http" />
> > <data android:scheme="https" />
> > <data android:scheme="file" />
> > <data android:mimeType="application/x-webarchive-xml"/>
> > </intent-filter>
> >
> > So that command should be able to launch bbench in the browser from the
> > command line. I'll have more on this once I release ICS with bbench
> > (possibly today, more likely tomorrow).
> >
> > -Tony
> >
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> Thanks for the input. I figured out your were "synchronizing" with
> mkfifo. This seems to be the simplest way to connect the script to the
> benchmark application. I'm not sure how to execute "m5 exit" from
> within an application (.apk). From a compiled native (C) application
> it would certainly be easy to execute arbitrary commands; however,
> from inside the Android sandbox, I'm not sure if it is possible to
> access commands like "ls/m5", etc...
>
> It will be good to have an ICS kernel/image, we've already started on
> some Renderscript benchmarks. It would be nice to get those up and
> running on gem5, to compare ndk/sdk/Renderscript performance
> characteristics.
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