An ARM big.LITTLE system consists of two cpu clusters: the big
CPUs are typically complex out-of-order cores and the little
CPUs are simpler in-order ones. The fs_bigLITTLE.py script
can run a full system simulation with various number of big
and little cores and cache hierarchy. The commit also includes
two example device tree files for booting Linux on the
bigLITTLE system.
Change-Id: I6396fb3b2d8f27049ccae49d8666d643b66c088b
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
The dts files in system/arm/dt currently assume that an (unreleased)
gem5-specific virtual encoder is used as a remote endpoint for the
HDLCD. This driver won't be released as a more general virtual encoder
is about to be posted on the Linux DRI devel list and this encoder has
now been merged with gem5's kernel tree. This changeset updates gem5's
dts files to use that encoder.
Change-Id: Ic1a1be728efd31603752fdfba005b6dbdea42e7e
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rene De Jong <rene.dejong@arm.com>
Ship aarch32 and aarch64 device trees with gem5. We currently ship
device trees as a part of the gem5 Linux kernel repository. This makes
tracking hard since device trees are supposed to be platform dependent
rather than kernel dependent (Linux considers device trees to be a
stable kernel ABI). It also makes code sharing between aarch32 and
aarch64 impossible.
This changeset implements a set of device trees for the new
VExpress_GEM5_V1 platform. The platform is described in a shared file
that is separate from the memory/CPU description. Due to differences
in how secondary CPUs are initialized, aarch32 and aarch64 use
different base files describing CPU nodes and the machine's
compatibility property.
