Veydan, We're happy to have you ask questions on the mailing list, but can you please in the future fix the subject line so it is actually meaningful?
Thanks, Nathan On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Veydan Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, could anybody tell me how exactly to build a image from Gentoo stage 3 > image, all I got from the internet is an tar.gz file and no image file in > it. If I don't have a image file to run M5 in FS mode first, how can I > compile the image ? Sorry for such silly question, but it confused me for > quite a long time. Thanks! > >> Message: 3 >> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:24:39 -0500 >> From: Ali Saidi <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [m5-users] compile vmlinux on m5 >> To: M5 users mailing list <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes >> >> PTXDist hasn't been supported by M5 people for quite some time. I >> recommend you start with the gentoo stage 3 image. >> >> Ali >> >> On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Veydan Wu wrote: >> >> > Hi, I want to run m5 in full system mode target ALPHA. >> > >> > I follow the instruction on the page "Using linux-dist to Create Disk >> > Images and Kernels for M5", and I have reached the final step >> > "Compiling benchmarks for the image and creating the image with >> > linux-dist ". >> > >> > But the script seems mistake , it fetch a package ipkg-util-1.7.tar.gz >> > automatically from the internet, but failed. The ftp site does not >> > work, so I downloaded it manually and placed it in the directory the >> > compile tool designates. Then the compilation continued, but after it >> > extract the package, the default path of some patch is different from >> > the package i download, so the compilation failed again. >> > >> > Does anyone encounter similar problem before? How can I deal with >> > this? Thank you! >> > >> > >> > >> > ps: The error message is as followed: >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > target: host-ipkg-utils.extract >> > ------------------------------- >> > >> > extract: archive=/media/Study/CPU/CPUsource/M5/linux-dist/ >> > my_workspace/src/ipkg-utils-1.7.tar.gz >> > extract: dest=/media/Study/CPU/CPUsource/M5/linux-dist/my_workspace/ >> > build-host >> > patchin: packet=ipkg-utils-1.7 >> > patchin: dir=/media/Study/CPU/CPUsource/M5/linux-dist/my_workspace/ >> > build-host/ipkg-utils-1.7 >> > patchin: name=/media/Study/CPU/CPUsource/M5/linux-dist/lib/ >> > ptxdist-0.10.3/patches/ipkg-utils-1.7/generic/ipkg-utils-1.7-tarX.diff >> > ... >> > /bin/sh: patch: not found >> > exit: 1: Illegal number: -1 >> > make: *** [/media/Study/CPU/CPUsource/M5/linux-dist/my_workspace/ >> > state/host-ipkg-utils.extract] >> > Error 2 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > m5-users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> > >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
