Actually I believe this is a somewhat pervasive problem in the slides, where latex has automatically substituted a single dash for the "--" option prefix... I noticed this myself during the tutorial.
I assume there's a way to escape these prefixes to avoid this problem... we probably need someone to go over the .tex files with a good regular expression. Steve On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Richard Strong <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > First, I wanted to share my appreciation to the gem5 community for putting > up the great documentation and slides. However, the example I tried has a > few problems that may send users for a loop so I figure I would post it here > to see if we can get some updated slides. For 64 socket SMP, 2-Level on-chip > Caches, MOESI protocol, 32K L1s, 8MB L2 per chip, mesh interconnect the > tutorial says to do: > > ./build/ALPHA_FS/m5.op configs/example/ruby_fs.py -n 64 -l1i_size=32kB > -l1d_size=32kB -l2_size=512MB -num-l2caches=64 -topology=Mesh -timing > > But this leads to complaints with the options compiler, because "-" should > be "--". If you fix this, Mesh.py on line 80 throws an exception because it > expects a DMAController but finds a DirectoryController. The change here > after looking in the mailing list is to add --num-dirs=64. The final > functional version I show below: > > ./build/ALPHA_FS/m5.opt configs/example/ruby_fs.py -n 64 --l1i_size=32kB --l > 1d_size=32kB --l2_size=512MB --num-l2caches=64 --topology=Mesh --timing > --num-dirs=64 > > Also, please note that the example for "8 core CMP, 2-Level, MESI protocol, > 32K L1s, 8MB 8-banked L2s, crossbar interconnect" has a similar problem with > how the options were added where only a single '-' appears in the slides as > opposed to '--'. I have not tested this example yet, but saw a similar > format. > > Best, > Rick > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users > _______________________________________________ gem5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
