HI Joel, You should be able to pass parameters to the kernel by editing FSConfig.py. We already have to pass several parameters to the kernel to make it gem5 boot, so you should be able to easily add one.
Ali On Dec 7, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Joel Hestness wrote: > Hey guys, > I'm wondering if it's possible to pass parameters to the Linux kernel in > full-system mode. If so, can you point me to how to do this? > > Background: I've narrowed the x86 full-system IDE bug down to some > incorrect handling of IDE channels in Linux, and I may have uncovered a fix > (here: http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2010-12/msg00286.html). > The basic problem is that the IDE disks that gem5 models are an old spec, and > the Linux kernel 2.6.28 doesn't know how to deal with them appropriately by > default. To test this fix will require passing a parameter to Linux for > configuring the ide_generic module. > > Thanks! > Joel > > > -- > Joel Hestness > PhD Student, Computer Architecture > Dept. of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~hestness > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > gem5-users@gem5.org > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users
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