Hi All, I have few queries regarding the regression tests for X86.
(1) I could build the x86 in FS mode for AtomicSimpleCPU, O3CPU and SimpleTimingCPU mode (I am using a bunch of x86-specific patches from http://www.csl.cornell.edu/~vince/projects/m5/m5_x86_64_se_status.html). I guess that the pre-compiled linux kernel (that can be downloaded from M5 site) was complied for alpha arch only. So I actually downloaded the linux-dist tarball from M5 site for x86 build. This tarball has a .config.M5 that can be used for compiling the kernel, but that .config.m5 is ALPHA-specific. So in order to compile the linux for x86, I used the config of my native linux machine kernel as a basis for our x86 config kernel and got the vmlinux for x86. Following commands are used for that:- cp /boot/config ./.config make menuconfig make-kpkg clean fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-v2.6.27 kernel_image kernel_headers I used that vmliux for X86_FS build and did not get any error during the build process. So my query is, are there any x86-specific patches (configurations) that I should have considered for compiling the linux kernel for x86. (2)Then I tried to test that X86_FS m5.opt using regression tests. All the several test programs present for the regression tests have config.ini files only for alpha in m5-dev tarball, but they don't have the same for X86. But using the following command, I can generate those x86-specific config-ini for the test-programs used in FS mode regression. build/X86_FS/m5.opt -re configs/example/fs.py --cmd=tests/test-progs/<test program name>/bin/x86/<test program binary> But the problem is that the m5-dev tarball (m5/tests/test-progs/*) does not have the test program binaries (m5/tests/quick/*) (for example, 10.linux-boot,80.netperf-stream,50.memtest etc) except hello (which is not used for FS mode regression). So I could not generate the config.ini for x86 in order to run the regression tests. So my query is, have anyone worked on the X86 regression tests / faced the same problem? Before I use the x86_FS.opt for SPEC2000/2006 benchmarks, I want that to pass the regression tests first. Thanks and Regards, Dibakar Gope Texas A&M University _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list m5-dev@m5sim.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
