From bbeb8082a56b765181b769c5e1f41e173c0444fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:16:00 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] main: add .m5/options.py processing.  This file is processed
 before arguments are parsed so that they can change the default options for
 various config parameters.

---
 src/python/m5/main.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/python/m5/main.py b/src/python/m5/main.py
index c4f26c472..4f28cf385 100644
--- a/src/python/m5/main.py
+++ b/src/python/m5/main.py
@@ -122,6 +122,13 @@ def main():
     import info
     import internal
 
+    # load the options.py config file to allow people to set their own
+    # default options
+    options_file = config.get('options.py')
+    if options_file:
+        scope = { 'options' : options }
+        execfile(options_file, scope)
+
     arguments = options.parse_args()
 
     done = False