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diff --git a/ext/systemc/README.gem5.md b/ext/systemc/README.gem5.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b966b7d65 --- /dev/null +++ b/ext/systemc/README.gem5.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Overview +======== + +This subfolder (/ext/systemc) is a custom redistribution of the Accellera +SystemC 2.3.1 library [[1]][sysc]. This distribution replaces Accellera's +Autoconf build system with a SCons build system, which is used by gem5. + +In the past it happened several times that some changes in gem5 broke the +SystemC coupling. Recently Accelera has changed the licence for SystemC from +their own licence to Apache2.0, which is compatible with gem5. However, SystemC +usually relies on the Boost library. The repository contains all the source +files from the Accellera distribution, but strips down the boost dependencies, +shown here:[[3]][strip]. All references to the boost library are replaced by +calls to the C++11 STL. This repository also contains the TLM 2.0 +protocol-checker from Doulos [[4]][doulos]. + + +[sysc]: http://accellera.org/downloads/standards/systemc +[gem5]: http://www.gem5.org/Main_Page +[doulos]: https://www.doulos.com/knowhow/systemc/tlm2/base_protocol_checker/ +[strip]: https://github.com/tud-ccc/systemc-scons/commit/913a7451939dc4d4bd752df7081064f9f870517a |