This chapter assumes you've already built a basic x86 system with gem5 and created a simple configuration script.
Let's start by downloading some ARM benchmark binaries. Begin from the root of the gem5 folder:
mkdir -p cpu_tests/benchmarks/bin/arm cd cpu_tests/benchmarks/bin/arm wget gem5.org/dist/current/gem5/cpu_tests/benchmarks/bin/arm/Bubblesort wget gem5.org/dist/current/gem5/cpu_tests/benchmarks/bin/arm/FloatMM
We'll use these to further test our ARM system.
Just as we did when we first built our basic x86 system, we run the same command, except this time we want it to compile with the default ARM configurations. To do so, we just replace x86 with ARM:
scons build/ARM/gem5.opt -j20
When compilation is finished you should have a working gem5 executable at build/ARM/gem5.opt.
Before we can run any ARM binaries with our new system, we'll have to make a slight tweak to our simple.py.
If you recall when we created our simple configuration script, it was noted that we did not have to connect the PIO and interrupt ports to the memory bus for any ISA other than for an x86 system. So let's remove those 3 lines:
system.cpu.createInterruptController() #system.cpu.interrupts[0].pio = system.membus.master #system.cpu.interrupts[0].int_master = system.membus.slave #system.cpu.interrupts[0].int_slave = system.membus.master system.system_port = system.membus.slave
You can either delete or comment them out as above. Next let's set the processes command to one of our ARM benchmark binaries:
process.cmd = ['cpu_tests/benchmarks/bin/arm/Bubblesort']
If you'd like to test a simple hello program as before, just replace x86 with arm:
process.cmd = ['tests/test-progs/hello/bin/arm/linux/hello']
Simply run it as before, except replace X86 with ARM:
build/ARM/gem5.opt configs/tutorial/simple.py
If you set your process to be the Bubblesort benchmark, your output should look like this:
gem5 Simulator System. http://gem5.org
gem5 is copyrighted software; use the --copyright option for details.
gem5 compiled Oct 3 2019 16:02:35
gem5 started Oct 6 2019 13:22:25
gem5 executing on amarillo, pid 77129
command line: build/ARM/gem5.opt configs/tutorial/simple.py
Global frequency set at 1000000000000 ticks per second
warn: DRAM device capacity (8192 Mbytes) does not match the address range assigned (512 Mbytes)
0: system.remote_gdb: listening for remote gdb on port 7002
Beginning simulation!
info: Entering event queue @ 0. Starting simulation...
info: Increasing stack size by one page.
warn: readlink() called on '/proc/self/exe' may yield unexpected results in various settings.
Returning '/home/jtoya/gem5/cpu_tests/benchmarks/bin/arm/Bubblesort'
-50000
Exiting @ tick 258647411000 because exiting with last active thread context