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-rw-r--r--src/python/m5/__init__.py17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/python/m5/__init__.py b/src/python/m5/__init__.py
index c0728120c..19af24e6f 100644
--- a/src/python/m5/__init__.py
+++ b/src/python/m5/__init__.py
@@ -58,6 +58,20 @@ def AddToPath(path):
sys.path.insert(1, path)
+# The m5 module's pointer to the parsed options object
+options = None
+
+
+# User should call this function after calling parse_args() to pass
+# parsed standard option values back into the m5 module for
+# processing.
+def setStandardOptions(_options):
+ # Set module global var
+ global options
+ options = _options
+ # tell C++ about output directory
+ main.setOutputDir(options.outdir)
+
# Callback to set trace flags. Not necessarily the best way to do
# things in the long run (particularly if we change how these global
# options are handled).
@@ -110,6 +124,7 @@ TorF = "True | False"
# Standard optparse options. Need to be explicitly included by the
# user script when it calls optparse.OptionParser().
standardOptions = [
+ optparse.make_option("--outdir", type="string", default="."),
optparse.make_option("--traceflags", type="string", action="callback",
callback=setTraceFlags),
optparse.make_option("--tracestart", type="int", action="callback",
@@ -187,7 +202,7 @@ def resolveSimObject(name):
def instantiate(root):
config.ticks_per_sec = float(root.clock.frequency)
# ugly temporary hack to get output to config.ini
- sys.stdout = file('config.ini', 'w')
+ sys.stdout = file(os.path.join(options.outdir, 'config.ini'), 'w')
root.print_ini()
sys.stdout.close() # close config.ini
sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__ # restore to original