Re: [gem5-dev] Installing a Compiled Kernel to Disk Image for ARM

2016-08-12 Thread Qureshi Yasir Mahmood
Hi Andreas, Thank you for the reply. I actually need the disk image for different packages from the distribution (like from Ubuntu etc.). So for this I need a rootfs of the distribution on an image, right ? Yasir -Original Message- From: gem5-dev [mailto:gem5-dev-boun...@gem5.org] On

Re: [gem5-dev] Installing a Compiled Kernel to Disk Image for ARM

2016-08-12 Thread Andreas Sandberg
Hi Yasir, You don’t need to alter your disk images to use a new kernel (in fact, you don’t even need a disk image to start the kernel). The bootstrapping process in gem5 works roughly along these lines: Before time starts (this all happens within gem5): 1. Instantiate all components in

[gem5-dev] Installing a Compiled Kernel to Disk Image for ARM

2016-07-25 Thread Qureshi Yasir Mahmood
Hi, I have compiled a linux kernel as instructed on the wiki http://www.m5sim.org/ARM_Linux_Kernel. Can anyone let me know as to how to create a disk image from this compiled kernel, or how to install the kernel on to a disk image ? Regards Yasir