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| − | + | AsimBench is renamed as '''Moby'''!  | |
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| + | This page describes all the necessary files and modifications to run Android and [http://asg.ict.ac.cn/projects/moby Moby] on gem5 using the ARM ISA.    | ||
| + | [[BBench-gem5]] introduces more detailed information about how to set Android running on gem5, and how to build Android File System and Kernel.  | ||
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| + | == Android Full-System Files ==  | ||
| + | '''These files contain everything you need to get Android, and Moby, up and running on gem5.'''  | ||
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| + | All these files can be downloaded from [https://bitbucket.org/yongbing_huang/asimbench here].  | ||
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| + | * '''vmlinux.smp.ics.arm.asimbench.2.6.35''' -- Pre-compiled Android kernel. Compared to the 2.6.35 version Android kernel, this kernel only modifies the screen size of simulated mobile device, which is specified to 800 x 480.  | ||
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| + | * '''ARMv7a-ICS-Android.SMP.Asimbench.tar.gz''' -- Disk image with a pre-compiled ICS file-system. This disk image contains all the files for all the applications included in AsimBench. The related files are mainly stored in the directories ''data/app'', ''data/data'' of the image.   | ||
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| + | * '''sdcard-1g.tar.gz''' -- Disk image with applications' data. This disk image simulates the SDcard partition of mobile devices.  | ||
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| + | * '''{k9mail, adobe, sinaweibo, ...}.rcS''' -- Execution scripts for each application in gem5.  | ||
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| + | ==Running Moby on Android with gem5==  | ||
| + | * Both the disk image and the SDcard image should be loaded by gem5, and the SDcard image is automatically mounted under the directory ''/mnt/sdcard'' of Android file system by default.  | ||
| + |   Here is an example of loading two disk images in gem5. In the file ''config/common/FSConfig.py''  | ||
| + |     def make ArmSystem(...)  | ||
| + |         ...  | ||
| + |         self.cf0 = CowIdeDisk(driveID='master')  | ||
| + |         self.cf2 = CowIdeDisk(driveID='master')  | ||
| + |         self.cf0.childImage(mdesc.disk())  | ||
| + |         self.cf2.childImage(disk("sdcard-1g.img"))  | ||
| + |         # default to an IDE controller rather than a CF one  | ||
| + |         # assuming we've got one  | ||
| + |         try:  | ||
| + |             self.realview.ide.disks = [self.cf0, self.cf2]  | ||
| + |         except:  | ||
| + |             self.realview.cf_ctrl.disks = [self.cf0, self.cf2]  | ||
| + |         ...  | ||
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| + | == Publications ==  | ||
| + | If you use Moby (or AsimBench) in your work please cite our paper which will be appeared in ISPASS'2014.  | ||
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| + | Yongbing Huang, Zhongbin Zha, Mingyu Chen, Lixin Zhang. Moby: A Mobile Benchmark Suite for Architectural Simulators.  ''IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS)'', Monterey, CA, March 2014.  | ||
Latest revision as of 01:23, 31 December 2013
AsimBench is renamed as Moby!
This page describes all the necessary files and modifications to run Android and Moby on gem5 using the ARM ISA. BBench-gem5 introduces more detailed information about how to set Android running on gem5, and how to build Android File System and Kernel.
Android Full-System Files
These files contain everything you need to get Android, and Moby, up and running on gem5.
All these files can be downloaded from here.
- vmlinux.smp.ics.arm.asimbench.2.6.35 -- Pre-compiled Android kernel. Compared to the 2.6.35 version Android kernel, this kernel only modifies the screen size of simulated mobile device, which is specified to 800 x 480.
 
- ARMv7a-ICS-Android.SMP.Asimbench.tar.gz -- Disk image with a pre-compiled ICS file-system. This disk image contains all the files for all the applications included in AsimBench. The related files are mainly stored in the directories data/app, data/data of the image.
 
- sdcard-1g.tar.gz -- Disk image with applications' data. This disk image simulates the SDcard partition of mobile devices.
 
- {k9mail, adobe, sinaweibo, ...}.rcS -- Execution scripts for each application in gem5.
 
Running Moby on Android with gem5
- Both the disk image and the SDcard image should be loaded by gem5, and the SDcard image is automatically mounted under the directory /mnt/sdcard of Android file system by default.
 
 Here is an example of loading two disk images in gem5. In the file config/common/FSConfig.py
   def make ArmSystem(...)
       ...
       self.cf0 = CowIdeDisk(driveID='master')
       self.cf2 = CowIdeDisk(driveID='master')
       self.cf0.childImage(mdesc.disk())
       self.cf2.childImage(disk("sdcard-1g.img"))
       # default to an IDE controller rather than a CF one
       # assuming we've got one
       try:
           self.realview.ide.disks = [self.cf0, self.cf2]
       except:
           self.realview.cf_ctrl.disks = [self.cf0, self.cf2]
       ...
Publications
If you use Moby (or AsimBench) in your work please cite our paper which will be appeared in ISPASS'2014.
Yongbing Huang, Zhongbin Zha, Mingyu Chen, Lixin Zhang. Moby: A Mobile Benchmark Suite for Architectural Simulators. IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Monterey, CA, March 2014.