Yes, if you don't modify the dtb, the Linux kernel won't see the change in the number of CPUs change, this can be verified with cat /proc/cpuinfo.
You can modify the dtb directly by first converting it to dts human readable form: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14000736/tool-to-visualize-the-device-tree-file-dtb-used-by-the-linux-kernel/39931834#39931834 and then doing the inverse operation. Normally the original source of the dts for ARM should be present on the forked gem5 Linux kernel fork: https://gem5.googlesource.com/arm/linux/+/917e007a4150d26a0aa95e4f5353ba72753669c7/arch/arm/boot/dts/ but I can't find if easily for some reason, only vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1.dts, maybe someone can clarify their origin. On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 10:46 AM, 조해윤 <chohy2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear, everyone. > > I try to full system simulation for ARM ISA. > So, I downloaded the pre-compiled kernels and disk images > (aarch-system-20170616.tar.xz) from the repository > (http://www.gem5.org/dist/current/arm/). > > There are several dtb files like below. > vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1-gem5_1cpus.20170616.dtb > vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1-gem5_2cpus.20170616.dtb > vexpress-v2p-ca15-tc1-gem5_4cpus.20170616.dtb > > However, not for 8 or 16 cpus. > If I want to experiment 16-cpu configuration, I should modify the dtb file? > > If I should modify the dtb file, how I can do that? > I found the documentations to build a kernel or to make a disk image. > http://gem5.org/ARM_Kernel > http://gem5.org/Ubuntu_Disk_Image_for_ARM_Full_System > > But, I couldn't find any documentation to modify the dtb file. > Is there any documentation for the dtb file? > > Best regards, > Haeyoon Cho. > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > gem5-users@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list gem5-users@gem5.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
