On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:40 PM Gabe Black <gabebl...@google.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Vitorio. gem5 doesn't run any system firmware/bootloader, and instead puts 
> the kernel into memory itself. There are a number of reasons for this, but 
> the net effect is that you wouldn't boot an image with UEFI at all. Also, the 
> (linux) kernel is fed into gem5 separately, and the disk image just has the 
> file system(s) on it.
>

Can you expand a little on the reasons? Isn't a firmware-based system
with the Linux kernel inside the disk image very similar to a
baremetal system?

> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 11:20 AM Vitorio Cargnini (lcargnini) 
> <lcargn...@micron.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> Question please do gem5 support booting an image disk file that contains 
>> UEFI?
>>
>>
>> REgards,
>>
>> Vitorio
>>
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