MicroTESK » MicroTESK for ARM Demo

h1. Toolchain

h2. ARMv8 programs compilation

To compile ARMv8 assembler programs do the following:

# Download the toolchain either from this page (see below) or from "here":http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries

# Unpack the gcc-linaro-...tar.xz archive into some "<toolchain>" folder

# Add "<toolchain>/bin" to the PATH environment variable.

# Supposing that you are compiling a @sample.s@ ARMv8 assembler program, do the following:

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aarch64-linux-gnu-as sample.s -march=armv8.2-a -o sample.o

aarch64-linux-gnu-ld --entry 0x0 sample.o -o sample.elf

aarch64-linux-gnu-objcopy -O binary sample.elf sample.bin

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h2. ARMv8 programs simulation

To simulate ARMv8 assembler programs do the following:

# Install the "QEMU4V":https://forge.ispras.ru/projects/qemu4v/wiki/Installation emulator.

# Supposing that you have compiled your sample program into @sample.bin@ binary do the following:

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qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a57 -bios sample.bin -nographic

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For every @*.bin@ binary file it's own log file will be generated. 

You may generate output log file in a Tarmac format by executing the QEMU4V emulator with the following parameters:

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qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a57 -bios sample.bin -d unimp,nochain,in_asm -singlestep -nographic -trace-log -D full-name-of-log-file.log

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