Hi Guru, There are some early KitKat build instructions on the Wiki [1]. You probably want as new a version as possible of Android if you¹re doing browser benchmarking since the browser tends to change a lot.
There is already a stub-GPU model in gem5 that simulates a Mali 6xx/7xx. You¹ll need drivers to use it though. This is unfortunately the tricky part. We (ARM) provide pre-compiled drivers for a handful of common boards, which you could use. At least in theory. Due to the driver model in Android, there is (sometimes) a dependency between the GPU driver (libEGL) and the display processor (the component that outputs your frame buffer to a display). Due to the dependency between the GPU driver and the display processor, you need a driver for a system with a display processor that can be modelled by gem5. In practice, this means that you¹re limited to the T62x driver for the Juno dev kit. However, this driver was built for Android Lollipop, so I¹m not not sure it will work for KitKat. //Andreas [1] http://www.gem5.org/Android_KitKat [2] http://malideveloper.arm.com/resources/drivers/ On 15/09/2015 19:59, "gem5-users on behalf of Guru Prasad" <gem5-users-boun...@gem5.org on behalf of gurup...@buffalo.edu> wrote: >I've been trying to run BBench on Android JellyBean and I've run into >some of the problems pointed out in your recent workshop presentation >on NoMali. > >Is there any way I can get NoMali up and running? I see that a >prerequisite is Android KitKat or Lollipop. Are the instructions >available somewhere on how to build images of these Android versions? >Would the instructions available here be sufficient? >Also, what (if any) updates would I need to make to the kernel? > >Regards >Guru >_______________________________________________ >gem5-users mailing list >gem5-users@gem5.org >http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users ________________________________ -- IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you. _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list gem5-users@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
