mdb runner is quite special as it can be used to run Zephyr on
both simulator (nSIM) and real hardware.
However it is really misleading as same command (west flash)
will run Zephyr in simulation for one board and try to run it
on HW for another board. Things are getting worse for boards
supporting both runs in simulation and on real hardware.
Let's split mdb runner for mdb-hw (for runs on HW) and mdb-nsim
(for runs in simulation) runners.
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com>
Enable MWDT toolchain in sanitycheck for all ARC nSIM boards
Signed-off-by: Wayne Ren <wei.ren@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@synopsys.com>
* to avoid confusion, combine nsim and mdb related
cmake configurations.
* this also enable the lanuch of mdb in sanitycheck
Signed-off-by: Wayne Ren <wei.ren@synopsys.com>
Now when SMP support for ARC is available we may introduce a simulation
platform which might be used for testing & development for SMP setups.
One important note is stand-alone nSIM (as well as its "Free" flavour)
doesn't support SMP simulation so we have to switch to use of nSIM via
proprietary MetaWare debugger [1] and so:
1. We introduce new emulation target "mdb"
2. It's only possible to run that platform for those who
have MetaWare tools installed and valid license.
Though QEMU port for ARC is in work at the moment and once we
open that port and it has SMP support we'll switch to it and everybody
will be able to try ARC HS with SMP.
[1] https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=sw_metaware
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Eugeniy Paltsev