> I'm looking at how easy it would be to boot the x86-64 version of the > Barrelfish OS on m5 (http://www.barrelfish.org/ says more about the project, > although the most recent source release is now getting a bit out of date).
I'll first say that this would be really cool! > My initial plan is to extend system.cc to support a simple boot loader for > modules, parsing the Barrelfish menu.lst file, loading the modules, and > creating the multiboot structures to describe what's been loaded. Does that > sound plausible? Gabe has given detail in his e-mails, but I should say that M5 itself already supports directly loading multiple modules into memory. Several platforms already do this. My guess is that we could make this a little bit more generic and then all of the menu.lst parsing and loading could simply be done from a python script. Nate _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
