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Notice that can't shallow clone from upstream, so just use my fork on
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@@ -6919,16 +6919,15 @@ Using this device now requires checking out to the branch:
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git checkout platform-device
git submodule sync
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before building, it does not work on master.
Rationale: we found out that the kernels that build for `qemu -M versatilepb` don't work on gem5 because `versatilepb` is an old pre-v7 platform, and gem5 requires armv7. So we migrated over to `-M virt` to have a single kernel for both gem5 and QEMU, and broke this since the single kernel was more important. TODO port to `-M virt`.
The module itself can be found at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat/blob/platform-device/kernel_modules/platform_device.c
Rationale: we found out that the kernels that build for `qemu -M versatilepb` don't work on gem5 because `versatilepb` is an old pre-v7 platform, and gem5 requires armv7.
At the same time, we also found out that Versatile Express (`vexpress`) does support armv7, so maybe we could port it over, but I had lost interest at that point, and decided to just go with the simpler `-M virt` machine instead.
Uses:
* `hw/misc/lkmc_platform_device.c` minimal device added in our QEMU fork to `-M versatilepb`