I will try to get version 2.6.38 to work. But, I won't be working on 3.0
anytime soon.

-Tony

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Ira Ray Jenkins <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Anthony Gutierrez <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > 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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> Awesome. Is this just the image, or will a *new* kernel follow? I'm
> not sure if the kernel would need to be upgraded, but I think aosp 4.0
> is moving/moved to kernel 3.0. I don't know how that will affect gem5.
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