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Revision as of 08:36, 18 June 2009
M5 is a flexible architecture simulator that supports a number of ISAs and operating systems for both full-system simulation (booting an entire operating system) and syscall emulation (running one or more applications by emulating syscalls). A complete list of supported combinations is listed below.
Syscall Emulation
Modifying M5 to support additional ISAs in syscall emulation mode is far easier than for full-system simulation. As such all new architectures to-date have used syscall emulation as a stepping stone to full-system simulation.
- ALPHA -- Tru64, Linux
 - SPARC -- Linux, Solaris
 - MIPS -- Linux
 - ARM -- Linux
 - x86/64 -- Linux
 
Note: Newer versions of Solaris do not support static linking so Solaris syscall emulation isn't used. Implementation of a dynamic linker in M5 (or M5 executing ld.so) is possible, but it hasn't been implemented.
Full-System Simulation
- ALPHA -- Linux, FreeBSD
 - SPARC -- Solaris
 - MIPS -- In progress, support nearly complete
 - ARM -- In progress, actively being worked on
 - x86/64 -- In progress, actively being worked on