Added notes on linux image generation (!140) · Merge requests · OpenHW Group / backup-20241120 / cvw

Created by: rosethompson

editorconfig to specify tabs/spaces. Fixed some tabs. Turn off coverage to speed up simulation
Updated testbench to record coremark performance counters. Added comment about mtval probably not being correct for compressed instructions.
Simplified SLT and SLTU code in ALU
Modified setup to add Imperas/scripts/cvw to path
Modified regression and wally-batch.do to support -coverage
Enhancements to support the PMA ranges
Removed unneeded echo from setup
Fixed crash with wrong number of arguments for coverage in regression-wally
Fixes to wally-batch for coverage
Replaced DCACHE parameter with READ_ONLY_CACHE as the name was confusing in chapter 10.
Changes BTA to BPBTA.
Modified the branch log to include markers for the start and end of tests with exclusion of warmup period.
Added script to separate branch.log into separate logs for each benchmark.
Renamed script to parse branch.log
Created script to batch processes all the embench branch outcomes into C model branch prediction rate.
Modified branch logger to indicate when the warmup period is done. The branch-predictor-simulator also changed to support this.
Added reference data.
On our way to finish the C reference data collection.
More accurate c model gshare results.
Updated CAdr to CacheSet.
Updated NextAdr to NextSet.
Book updates.
Added notes on how to run QEMU to generate linux image.

Added notes on linux image generation