It's an option for the m5 utility, not the gem5 simulator. It tells the
utility to use a different mechanism to trigger the operations, one based
on a special address rather than special, otherwise undefined instructions.
Gabe
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 1:10 AM krishnan gosakan
wrote:
> I am
I think that should work, although I haven't tried it. If you're using the
new m5 utility with x86 and the KVM cpu, be sure you use the --addr flag.
If not, then I think it should work the same.
Gabe
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 12:24 AM krishnan gosakan via gem5-users <
gem5-users@gem5.org> wrote:
Can I use m5 util from the current stable branch with the old gem5 repo I
am currently using? Will that won't create compatibility issues?
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 1:38 PM Gabe Black via gem5-users <
gem5-users@gem5.org> wrote:
> Probably not. There were some other fixes which made things
Probably not. There were some other fixes which made things partially work
with PIE code, but the version of the utility you're using may be too old
to include those, or you might be trying to use it in a way that the
partial support didn't cover (different ISA for instance). You'll probably
save
