FireMarshal is a workload generation tool for RISC-V based systems that automates constructing boot binaries and filesystem images and their evaluation.
- Stable Documentation: https://firemarshal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
- Paper Publication: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9408192
- Bugs and Feature Requests: https://github.com/firesim/FireMarshal/issues
- General Questions, Help, Discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firesim
- Want to contribute?: https://github.com/firesim/FireMarshal/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
The easiest way to use FireMarshal is to run it via Chipyard or FireSim. However, this is not required. To run FireMarshal independently, follow along from the next section (Standalone setup).
FireMarshal uses the Conda package manager to help manage system dependencies.
This allows users to create an "environment" that holds system dependencies like make, git, etc.
Next you can run the following commands to create a FireMarshal environment called firemarshal with a RISC-V compatible toolchain:
./scripts/setup-conda.sh --conda-env-name firemarshalTo enter this environment, you then run the activate command.
Note that this command should be run whenever you want to use FireMarshal so that packages can be properly be added to your PATH.
conda activate firemarshal # or whatever name/prefix you gave during environment creationIn addition to standard packages added in the conda environment, you will need the RISC-V ISA simulator (Spike). To install Spike, please refer to https://github.com/riscv-software-src/riscv-isa-sim.
Finally, if you are running as a user on a machine without sudo access it is required for you to install guestmount for disk manipulation.
You can install this through your default package manager (for ex. apt or yum).
You can also follow along with the guestmount installation instructions found in the FireSim project.
If you only want to build bare-metal workloads, you can skip updating submodules. Otherwise, you should update the required submodules by running:
./init-submodules.shBuilding workloads:
./marshal build br-base.jsonTo run in qemu:
./marshal launch br-base.jsonTo install into FireSim (assuming FireMarshal is setup within a Chipyard/FireSim installation):
./marshal install br-base.jsonBe advised that FireMarshal will run initialization scripts provided by workloads. These scripts will have all the permissions your user has, be sure to read all workloads carefully before building them.
The master branch of this project contains the latest unstable version of FireMarshal. It should generally work correctly, but it may contain bugs or other inconsistencies from time to time. For stable releases, see the release git tags or GitHub releases page.