Part I: Getting started with gem5

• Building gem5
  • Requirements for gem5
  • Getting the code
  • Your first gem5 build
  • Common errors
    • Wrong gcc version
    • Wrong SWIG version
    • Python in a non-default location
    • M4 macro processor not installed
• Creating a simple configuration script
  • gem5 configuration scripts
  • An aside on SimObjects
  • Creating a config file
    • An aside on gem5 ports
  • Running gem5
• Adding cache to the configuration script
  • Creating cache objects
    • BaseCache
  • Adding caches the simple config file
  • Adding parameters to your script
• Understanding gem5 statistics and output
  • config.ini
  • stats.txt
• Using the default configuration scripts
  • A tour of the directory structure
  • Using se.py and fs.py
  • Some common options se.py and fs.py