When we say unmodified, we mean those versions will work and you don't have to modify them. If you want to modify them anyway, assuming you're modifications are correct, they should still work.
Gabe Quoting soumyaroop roy <[email protected]>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
