Cross-Compiling SPEC2006 benchmarks for Alpha ISA on Ubuntu 12.04 x86-64

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This guide will show you how to cross-compile SPEC2006 for Alpha using your regular old Ubuntu machine running on Intel. In particular, I have done this so that they can be run in gem5 for the Alpha ISA. I assume that you have a copy of the SPEC benchmarks and the input vectors.

Quick gem5 Build Guide for Alpha ISA on Ubuntu 12.04 x86-x64 Host

Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

In this guide, I will walk you through a quick way to get gem5 built for the Alpha ISA using a Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit host. I have not tried these methods on any other platform. If you get stuck, you can always refer to the documentation at gem5.org. Nothing is presented here that doesn’t already exist somewhere else, but I found that some other methods did not work for me. These steps are based on gem5 revision f75ee4849c40 and the website as of 10/24/13. Please refer to the website for any specific version requirements. Make sure you have the following tools:

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Cross-Compiling SPEC2006 benchmarks for Alpha ISA on Ubuntu 12.04 x86-64

Quick gem5 Build Guide for Alpha ISA on Ubuntu 12.04 x86-x64 Host