What CPU are you restoring into? Are you using the development or stable branch 
of gem5?
Ali

On Sep 3, 2013, at 10:27 PM, Xiangyang Guo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, Ali,
> 
> Thanks for reply. I'm using ARM ISA and running Android APK file and Bbench. 
> If I make checkpoint with 2 cores and restore it, There are insts being 
> executed, but I cannot see anything new from frame buffer if I use 
> "--frame-capture". Any suggestion? Thanks
> 
> Xiangyang
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Ali Saidi <[email protected]> wrote:
> What version of gem5 and what architecture/benchmark/os are you running?
> 
> You should be able to make a checkpoint with 1, 2, or 4 cores (or as many as 
> the particular system/platform supports). Booting without caches should work 
> just as well as booting with caches.
> 
> You should create a checkpoint with the number of cores you wish to restore 
> from.
> 
> 
> Ali
> 
> On Aug 31, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Xiangyang Guo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to use the Simple CPU to boot up for FS. I also want to use 2 cores 
> > to runt he simulation. When I use 2 cores to boot my system, it takes about 
> > 6 hours and it still running. From the frame buffer, and I can see it stops 
> > at some place. If I use 1 core to boot up, it will take about 1-2 hours. So 
> > could I know if I can use 2 cores to make checkpoint?  I guess if we want 
> > to use 2 core , we should enable caches, but we should disable caches to 
> > make checkpoint, that's why it cannot boot up successfully, please correct 
> > me if I'm wrong.
> >
> > If we cannot make checkpoint with 2 cores, can we restart the simulation 
> > from the checkpoint with 2 cores while we use 1 core to make checkpoint?  I 
> > tried this and it seems that there are inst to be executed, but the frame 
> > buffer stay at the one pic and never change.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Xiangyang
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