gem5 requires armv7, and we learnt that the versatiledb we were using
was pre-v7.
We could have moved to -M vexpress-*, but in the end decided to go for
-M virt due to its simpliciy, and uniformity with aarch64.
platform_device: does not work anymore and was removed, since it was tied
to versatilepb.
We left a mention on the README and removed all in tree source. The QEMU
patch is still left as it was.
As a consequence, the linux tree had no other patches, and we now use
vanilla linux by default, which is a great thing for reproducibility.
Another consequence is the /poweroff.out works for arm -M virt,
and we removed all mentions of the problem.
Move benchmark this repo out of conversation, there is plenty of action there!
Move kernel module sections and buildroot sections out of conversation.
Document the instruction count between baseline Buildroot and our monstrosity.
Put ./count-boot-instructions in a separate script.
Link to MIPS graphics QEMU question.
Link to VFIO QEMU question.
Don't pass -e on checkpoint restore.
Add benchmarks to how much GEM5 is slower than QEMU.
Rename Kernel boot command line arguments to match kernel docs name.
Document how to pass extra options to GEM5.
Start listing interesting benchmarks to run on GEM5.
Add an openmp hello world.
Improve GEM5 documentation in general.
Fix documentation for x86 kernel module debugging example, fop_write had been made static,
and use timer.ko instead of fops which is more reliable and fun.
Semi automated conversion, in part because Pandoc is kind of buggy for adoc:
Some of the commands were along the lines:
for f in *.md; do pandoc --atx-headers --base-header-level=3 -o ${f%.md}.adoc --wrap=none $f; done
sed -Ei '/\[\[.*\]\]/d' *.adoc
while read -r f; do cat $f; echo; done <f >g
