Re: [Gems-users] Checkpoints creation problem

[Dan Gibson <degibson@xxxxxxxx>]

wxq wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I have two questions about your response to Abdullah. 
>
> You said:"Once disks are made (os installed, etc), its fine to crank up the cpu speed and increase the number of processors, provided you pass -r to the kernel at boot-time."
>
> (1) Do you mean that I can make OS installed with single CPU on a target machine and change the CPU number later for workload setup? 
>   
Yes.
> (2) How can I pass -r to the kernel at boot-time? 
>   
You have to do some magic to the boot prompt. The naked checkpoints do 
the same magic, I believe... otherwise, just have a look at the Simics 
reference manual on how to issue commands via the boot prom
Regards,
Dan
> Best Regards
> Ritchie wang
> 2008-03-24
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