README.md

   1 # About
   2
   3 The main SOC portion of Libre-SOC. A quad-core open source SOC with a 3D GPU,
   4 VPU, and using Libre-licensed design cells.
   5
   6 Libre-SOC is Libre down to the VLSI Cells, thanks to Chips4Makers FlexLib
   7 and Sorbonne University lip6.fr
   8
   9 # [Documentation](https://libre-soc.org/docs/)
  10
  11 # Installation
  12
  13     make gitupdate
  14     make install
  15     make test # optional (ish)
  16
  17 # Running Simulator tests
  18
  19 qemu and gdb for Power 64 are required.  qemu can be installed with
  20 "apt-get install qemu-system-ppc64", however gdb needs compiling from
  21 source.  Obtain the latest tarball, unpack it, then:
  22
  23     cd gdb-9.1 (or other location)
  24     mkdir build
  25     cd build
  26      ../configure --srcdir=.. --host=x86_64-linux --target=powerpc64-linux-gnu
  27     make -j16
  28     make install
  29
  30 You will need to have installed the powerpc gnu gcc cross-compiler for
  31 this to work:
  32
  33     apt-get install gcc-9-powerpc64-linux-gnu
  34