The latest version of the README has all the steps necessary to build the
kernel, image, and dtb files.


Anthony Gutierrez
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~atgutier


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Neal Haas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the fast response Anthony.
>
> I have followed these instructions and have been successfully booting
> ARMv8 in FS mode for a few weeks now thanks to your contributions. As far
> as I can tell the README is more of a guide about how to boot gem5 with the
> provided file rather than instructions about how the files were generated.
> And even though I recently saw that the contents of the tarball now include
> the 2core and 4core dtb varieties, I'd like to know how those were created
> in case I want to build my own dtb for x number of cores or hardware
> changes. If you, or some one you know could provide some more detail than
> what is written in the README, that would be appreciated.
>
> As a side note, Linaro updates the timestamp on their img files so the
> Disk image link in the README will not work directly.
>
> Thanks,
> Neal
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Anthony Gutierrez <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> There is an updated readme in that tarball that contains detailed
>> instructions for how everything in the tarball was built.
>>
>>
>> Anthony Gutierrez
>> http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~atgutier
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Neal Haas <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to understand how the vmlinux and dtb files were generated
>>> for ARMv8 tarball on gem5's website (
>>> http://www.gem5.org/dist/current/arm/arm64-system-02-2014.tgz). It
>>> would be helpful to know in the event I want to create my own. I have
>>> pulled the 'linux-linaro-tracking' repo (
>>> https://git.linaro.org/kernel/linux-linaro-tracking.git), assuming
>>> that's what was used, and followed the instructions on the Linaro website
>>> for building a kernel. I used the aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc as per the
>>> instructions. It seems that this is for the ARM FastModels, so it doesn't
>>> boot gem5 correctly.
>>>
>>> Can some one help me recreate the kernel and dtb build process for ARMv8
>>> on gem5? Specifically, I'm looking for the config file that was used and
>>> any other relevant information, such as linux repos or cross compilers.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Neal
>>>
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