Hi Pau,
Thanks for creating these instructions and Dockerfiles! This is
something that has been on my todo/wish list for a very long time.
I should be able to give you the permissions necessary to upload the
system image to the wiki. Do you have a user name that I can bless?
It'd be nice if we could standardise and automate the process of
updating the distribution binaries using a set of scripts that get
distributed with gem5. Docker is very convenient, but is a bit of
overkill if you already have the necessary environment up and running on
your workstation. The Docker script could then reuse these scripts for
automation. This would be a much appreciated contribution. How would you
feel about contributing these scripts in that way?
Cheers,
Andreas
On 21/04/2017 15:10, Pau Cabre wrote:
Hi all,
I made some changes to the Dockerfile in order to generated DTBs and kernel
filenames more in accordance with the current names in
aarch-system-2014-10.tar.xz.
The newly generated files can be found here:
https://github.com/metempsy/gem5_arm_fullsystem_files_generator/releases/download/20170421/aarch-system-20170421.tar.xz
I have also just pushed a changeset to gerrit in order to use these new files:
https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2841
With these changes, if the new filenames are not found, the old ones will be
used.
If the changes get accepted, it would be good to copy the
aarch-system-20170421.tar.xz file to somewhere in the gem5.org wiki.
Thanks,
Pau
-----Original Message-----
From: Pau Cabre [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: jueves, 13 de abril de 2017 0:41
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [gem5-dev] update ARM Full-System Files
(aarch-system-2014-10.tar.xz)
Hi Mohammad,
I have posted a Dockerfile to generate up-to-date arm full system files (to the
best of my knowledge) in this repository:
https://github.com/metempsy/gem5_arm_fullsystem_files_generator/
You can also directly access the generated files here:
https://github.com/metempsy/gem5_arm_fullsystem_files_generator/releases/download/201704/aarch-system-2017-04.tar.xz
The README.md has some information and command line examples for using the new
files.
Please feel free to try/modify them and provide any feedback.
If everybody agrees with these new files, ideally we should upload the released
.tar.xz file to the gem5.org wiki and do some small changes to FSConfig.py in
order to use the new files by default.
Thank you very much!
Pau
-----Original Message-----
From: Mohammad Alian [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: martes, 11 de abril de 2017 21:19
To: gem5 Developer List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [gem5-dev] update ARM Full-System Files
(aarch-system-2014-10.tar.xz)
Thanks a lot for bringing this up. I wanted to start such conversation for a
long time as all the full system files in the webpage are deprecated.
Thank you,
Mohammad
On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Pau Cabre <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to start a discussion about updating the
http://www.gem5.org/dist/current/arm/aarch-system-2014-10.tar.xz file,
which should contain the necessary files for running arm FullSystem
simulations.
To the best of my knowledge, it has at least a couple of deprecated files:
1) binaries/boot_emm.arm64 (generated from
system/arm/aarch64_bootloader/boot.S, which got updated on 2015-07-15)
2) binaries/vexpress.aarch64.20140821.dtb (it has a misconfiguration,
as explained by Andreas Sandberg here =>
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg18440.html)
And I also suspect that the /sbin/m5 binary of the images in the disks
directory is not compatible anymore with the current m5 initparam
pseudo-instruction, as I am getting the following assertion failure
when trying to use it in a simulated system of
aarch64-ubuntu-trusty-headless.img:
gem5.opt: build/ARM/sim/pseudo_inst.cc:398: uint64_t
PseudoInst::initParam(ThreadContext*, uint64_t, uint64_t): Assertion
`key_str2 == 0' failed.
Given this, I think that it would be good to update such deprecated
files, and it would be also good to add some new files required by
simulations of the VExpress_GEM5_V1 platform, namely:
a) The vmlinux files resulting from the compilations described here =>
http://gem5.org/ARM_Linux_Kernel#Linux_4.x
b) The DTBs from the compilations in the system/arm/dt directory of a
gem5 checkout
Does anybody see any inconvenient?
If there is a consensus on the upgrade, if you want I can provide a
Dockerfile with the necessary steps to build the new file (or if I get
the right permissions, I can upload the ~630MB file to the gem5.org
wiki and add a page explaining how it was generated).
Also, after these changes, we should also update "default_dtbs" and
"default_kernels" in FSConfig.py in order to look for the right DTB
and kernel for VExpress_GEM5_V1, and in turn, add some regression
tests for this new platform.
Thank you very much,
Pau
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