The m5 memtester supports functional accesses (there's a percent_functional
parameter on the MemTest object).  I don't know if anyone's run the
memtester with Ruby though.  Seems like it should work.

Steve

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Joel Hestness <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Nilay,
>  I don't know if there is a regression for it, but the M5 utility
> (./util/m5/) sets up functional accesses to memory.  For instance, in FS,
> if
> you specify an rcS script to fs.py and call
>  % /sbin/m5 readfile
> from the command line of the simulated system, it will read the specified
> rcS file off the host machine's disk and send it to the memory of the
> simulated system using functional accesses.  I think there are other
> functional access examples in the magic that the M5 utility provides.
>  Hope this helps,
>  Joel
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Nilay <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > How can I test whether or not functional accesses to the memory are
> > working correctly? Do we have some regression test for this?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Nilay
> >
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