Ong Wen JIan wrote: > Gabe Black <gblack <at> eecs.umich.edu> writes: > > >> Yes. If you're going to use x86 you'll want to stick with a 64 bit kernel. >> >> Gabe >> >> Ong Wen Jian wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone,, >>> >>> I'm currently modeling a PCI based GPU plugin for M5 simulator and I >>> want to know here,, is that possible for me to compile and build my >>> own linux kernel for the M5 simulator to boot up?? >>> >>> I need the new linux kernel with the GPU driver to test out whether >>> the kernel can detect the existing GPU model on the M5 simulator >>> >>> Please advice >>> >>> -- >>> ONG WEN JIAN >>> Student >>> Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, >>> Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia >>> 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor Darul Ehsan >>> Tel : 014 - 930 2150 / 017 - 613 6231 >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> m5-users mailing list >>> m5-users <at> m5sim.org >>> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >>> > > Hi Gabe, > > I create a x86root.img and try to boot the disk image with M5 on X86_FS mode > but > it could not boot the kernel > > M5 compiled Oct 7 2010 16:54:24 > M5 revision Unknown > M5 started Oct 7 2010 18:46:57 > M5 executing on ongwenjian-laptop > command line: ./build/X86_FS/m5.debug configs/example/fs.py > Global frequency set at 1000000000000 ticks per second > info: No kernel set for full system simulation. Assuming you know what you're > doing... > 0: rtc: Real-time clock set to Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 2009 > Listening for pc connection on port 3456 > warn: Reading current count from inactive timer. > For more information see: http://www.m5sim.org/warn/1ea2be46 > 0: system.remote_gdb.listener: listening for remote gdb #0 on port 7000 > **** REAL SIMULATION **** > info: Entering event queue @ 0. Starting simulation... > 2069461000: system.pc.terminal: attach terminal 0 > > and in the M5 terminal, the cursor keep blinking > > ==== m5 slave terminal: Terminal 0 ==== > > Where can I set the M5 simulator to point to the exact kernel location ?? > > Additional question and I just want to confirm > > In order for the X86_FS to boot the linux kernel, is that the linux kernel > should be inside the x86root.img ?? I create the image with a linux kernel on > it > ,,,,,,, > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > No, the kernel doesn't go in the disk image like it would on a normal system. We may allow booting like that one day, but there are a lot of extra pieces of the system that need to be in place for that to work. You need to use fs.py's --kernel option.
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