Hello there, I have not started using M5 yet. I am currently evaluating if M5 will useful in what I am trying to investigate. I am curious to know what it means when the documentation of M5 says that, for Alpha ISA, it supports full system capability to boot unmodified Linux 2.4/2.6 (http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page). What is the significance of the term "unmodified" if there are instructions to build linux boot image and kernel for the simulator (http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Using_linux-dist_to_Create_Disk_Images_and_Kernels_for_M5)?
Is it possible to make changes to, say, the process scheduler code in the kernel of one of the supported linux kernel versions, build it for M5, and then run M5 for a multicore processor (ALPHA, perhaps) in full-system simulation mode with the modified kernel? regards, Soumyaroop. -- Soumyaroop Roy Ph.D. Candidate Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Florida, Tampa http://www.csee.usf.edu/~sroy _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
