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2018-01-02config: Handle NULL simobject parameters in read_config.py.Gabe Black
Change-Id: If0f87e8ee37099be4d0f3567db4fc34f8467e409 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6943 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2018-01-02config: Fix parsing AddrRange parameters in read_config.py.Gabe Black
The format of AddrRange parameters was changed, but config/example/read_config.py wasn't updated for the new format. Change-Id: Ie0da7aaa47c827bacc2b4f7f44929efd868b8794 Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6942 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2018-01-02config: Add a --checkpoint-dir argument to read_config.py.Gabe Black
This argument lets the user restore a checkpoint after loading simulator state from config.ini. Change-Id: I6e0630d75b798a1d2536e2408660843f57f46c4b Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/6941 Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com> Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
2015-11-22config: Added missing types to JSON/INI Python readerAndrew Bardsley
Added the missing types EthernetAddr and Current to the JSON/INI file reader example configs/example/read_config.py. Also added __str__ to EthernetAddr to make values appear in the same form in JSON an INI files.
2014-10-16config: Add the ability to read a config file using C++ and PythonAndreas Hansson
This patch adds the ability to load in config.ini files generated from gem5 into another instance of gem5 built without Python configuration support. The intended use case is for configuring gem5 when it is a library embedded in another simulation system. A parallel config file reader is also provided purely in Python to demonstrate the approach taken and to provided similar functionality for as-yet-unknown use models. The Python configuration file reader can read both .ini and .json files. C++ configuration file reading: A command line option has been added for scons to enable C++ configuration file reading: --with-cxx-config There is an example in util/cxx_config that shows C++ configuration in action. util/cxx_config/README explains how to build the example. Configuration is achieved by the object CxxConfigManager. It handles reading object descriptions from a CxxConfigFileBase object which wraps a config file reader. The wrapper class CxxIniFile is provided which wraps an IniFile for reading .ini files. Reading .json files from C++ would be possible with a similar wrapper and a JSON parser. After reading object descriptions, CxxConfigManager creates SimObjectParam-derived objects from the classes in the (generated with this patch) directory build/ARCH/cxx_config CxxConfigManager can then build SimObjects from those SimObjectParams (in an order dictated by the SimObject-value parameters on other objects) and bind ports of the produced SimObjects. A minimal set of instantiate-replacing member functions are provided by CxxConfigManager and few of the member functions of SimObject (such as drain) are extended onto CxxConfigManager. Python configuration file reading (configs/example/read_config.py): A Python version of the reader is also supplied with a similar interface to CxxConfigFileBase (In Python: ConfigFile) to config file readers. The Python config file reading will handle both .ini and .json files. The object construction strategy is slightly different in Python from the C++ reader as you need to avoid objects prematurely becoming the children of other objects when setting parameters. Port binding also needs to be strictly in the same port-index order as the original instantiation.