On Fri, 21 May 2010, Malek Musleh wrote:
> In the long run, i am interested in running the parsec benchmarks on
> the X86 ISA, (SE simulation is fine) and would like to know if the
> current stable version requires relatively modest
> modifications/improvements for my studies, and if not, if the current
> dev-repo is a viable alternative.

you're going to need to run the development tree.

You'll also need additional patches.  You can see here:
   http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~vince/projects/m5/m5_x86_64_se_status.html
for the status of m5 for x86_64, at least with the SPEC2000 benchmarks.

There's at least 8 patches or so there that would need to be applied 
before SPEC2000 ran, I've been meaning to clean them up and submit them at 
some point, but graduating/getting a new job has sucked up all my time.

In general, none of the x87 floating point support will work.  You'll need 
to compile your binaries using SSE only.

I also am not sure what the status of multi-threaded programs is in X86_SE 
mode, I imagine it will take a bit of work to get stock compiled PARSEC 
running.

Vince

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