Part II: Modifying and extending gem5

• Setting up your development environment
  • gem5-style guidelines
  • Mercurial patch queues
• Creating your first SimObject
  • Step 1: Create a new patch for your changes
  • Step 2: Create a Python class for your new SimObject
  • Step 3: Implement your SimObject in C++
  • Step 4: Register the SimObject and C++ file
  • Step 5: Other things for tags, because their weird
  • Step 6: Modify the config scripts to use your new SimObject
• Debugging gem5