7.1. FireMarshal

FireMarshal is a workload generation tool for RISC-V based systems. It currently only supports the FireSim FPGA-accelerated simulation platform.

Workloads in FireMarshal consist of a series of Jobs that are assigned to logical nodes in the target system. If no jobs are specified, then the workload is considered uniform and only a single image will be produced for all nodes in the system. Workloads are described by a json file and a corresponding workload directory and can inherit their definitions from existing workloads. Typically, workload configurations are kept in workloads/ although you can use any directory you like. We provide a few basic workloads to start with including buildroot or Fedora-based linux distributions and bare-metal.

Once you define a workload, the marshal command will produce a corresponding boot-binary and rootfs for each job in the workload. This binary and rootfs can then be launched on qemu or spike (for functional simulation), or installed to a platform for running on real RTL (currently only FireSim is automated).

To get started, checkout the full FireMarshal documentation.