[Barrelfish-users] Running ARM Barrelfish on Gem5

[Kornilios Kourtis]

Hi Zeus,

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 04:06:48PM +0100, Samuel Hitz wrote:
> AFAIK the Barrelfish arm tree for which those instructions were written for has
> not been released to the public yet. The one in the current public repo is
> vastly outdated and doesn't reflect the current status of the ARM port on Gem5.
> 
> Maybe you could ask someone if you can clone the internal Barrelfish for ARM
> tree, but I also heard that there will be a public release soon.

As you 've probably seen already, we did make a public release, and as
Samuel suggested, you should be able to find gem5_patches.patch in the
current tree. I am not sure if gem5 on ARM works without problems for the
current tip, but if there are problems they should be relatively easy to
fix.

cheers,
Kornilios.

> 
> cheers,
> 
> Samuel
> 
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Zeus Gómez Marmolejo <zeus.gomez at bsc.es> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     The mailing list has been very quiet lately. I hope everything is running
>     fine :)
> 
>     I was trying Barrelfish on the arm_gem5 target, but I got stuck on
>     different errors. I'm using the latest public release.
> 
>     First, I tried to follow the instructions here: http://wiki.barrelfish.org/
>     Running_on_gem5
> 
>     But the 'gem5_patches.patch' file doesn't exist and the 'arm_gem5' and
>     'arm_gem5_mc' makefile targets are not present. I guess these instructions
>     may refer to a newer version that is not present on the public Barrelfish
>     tree.
> 
>     In any case, there is a README file in the tools/arm_gem5 folder that also
>     tell how to build it (the gem5 directory in the instructions has to be
>     changed to the actual arm_gem5). Finally it boots with the following error:
> 
>     ==== m5 slave terminal: Terminal 0 ====
>     Barrelfish CPU driver starting on ARMv7 Board id 0x000008e0
>     The address of paging_map_kernel_section is 0xc0022d20
>     kernel PANIC! kernel assertion "limit > start" failed at ../../bf/kernel/
>     arch/arm/phys_mmap.c:130
> 
>     I would like to know if this target is currently supported. I guess there
>     was a revision in the past that was working. I wonder which one it is...
> 
>     On the other hand, the mercurial tip of the Gem5 simulator doesn't have the
>     VExpress_ELT platform any more, but has been substituted by the
>     VExpress_EMM. So it would be worth updating the port.
> 
>     Best regards,
>    
>     --
>     Zeus Gómez Marmolejo
>     Barcelona Supercomputing Center
>     PhD student

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Kornilios Kourtis