diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index daafbfc..4cfcbee 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -12832,6 +12832,8 @@ Running the larger 2019 regression tests is exposed for example with: ./gem5-regression --arch aarch64 -- --length quick --length long .... +Sample run time: 87 minutes on <> Ubuntu 20.04 gem5 872cb227fdc0b4d60acc7840889d567a6936b6e1. + After the first run has downloaded the test binaries for you, you can speed up the process a little bit by skipping an useless SCons call: .... @@ -12843,7 +12845,7 @@ Note however that running without `--skip-build` is required at least once to do List available instead of running them: .... -./gem5-regression --arch aarch64 --cmd list +./gem5-regression --arch aarch64 --cmd list -- --length quick --length long .... You can then pick one suite (has to be a suite, not an "individual test") from the list and run just it e.g. with: @@ -13840,7 +13842,7 @@ This calls the `Event::process` method of the event. Another important technique is to use <> and break at interesting points such as: .... -b Trace::OstreamLogger::logMessage() +b Trace::OstreamLogger::logMessage b EventManager::schedule b EventFunctionWrapper::process .... @@ -21966,6 +21968,13 @@ ARM also releases documentation specific to each given processor. This adds extra details to the more portable <> ISA documentation. +For every processor, there are basically two key documents: + +* technical reference manual, e.g.: <> +* software optimization guide, e.g.: <> ++ +This contains some approximate instruction latencies and pipeline properties. + [[arm-cortex15-trm]] ====== ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore Processor Technical Reference Manual r4p0 @@ -21973,6 +21982,16 @@ http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.ddi0438i/DDI0438I_cortex_a15_r4 2013. +[[arm-cortex-a77-trm]] +===== Arm Cortex‑A77 Technical Reference Manual r1p1 + +https://static.docs.arm.com/101111/0101/arm_cortex_a77_trm_101111_0101_04_en.pdf + +[[arm-cortex-a77-sog]] +===== Arm Cortex‑A77 Software Optimization Guide r1p1 + +https://static.docs.arm.com/swog011050/c/Arm_Cortex-A77_Software_Optimization_Guide.pdf + == ELF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format @@ -26452,6 +26471,8 @@ There are some less hardware bound higher level layers in the kernel which might But of course, those are heavily motivated by the underlying hardware characteristics, and it is very likely that most of the people working there were previously at a hardware company. + In that sense, therefore, the kernel is not as open as one might want to believe. ++ +Of course, if there is some https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1697842/do-graphic-cards-have-instruction-sets-of-their-own/1697883[super useful and undocumented hardware that is just waiting there to be reverse engineered], then that's a much juicier target :-) * it is impossible to become rich with this knowledge. + This is partly implied by the fact that you need to be in a big company to make useful low level things, and therefore you will only be a tiny cog in the engine. @@ -26475,7 +26496,7 @@ It is much easier to accept limitations of physics, and even natural selection i + Physics-based engineering, just like low level hardware, is of course completely closed source however, since wrestling against the laws of physics is about the most expensive thing humans can do. -Are you fine with those points, and ready to continue wasting your life? +Are you fine with those points, and ready to continue wasting your life with this crap? Good. In that case, read on, and let's have some fun together ;-)