Switch to loadmem-by-elf instead of loadmem-by-hex

docs/Simulation/Software-RTL-Simulation.rst

@@ -151,25 +151,17 @@ Fast Memory Loading
 -------------------
 
 The simulator loads the program binary over a simulated serial line. This can be quite slow if there is a lot of static data, so the simulator also allows data to be loaded from a file directly into the DRAM model.
+Loadmem files should be ELF files. In the most common use case, this can be the binary.
 
 .. code-block:: shell
 
-    make run-binary BINARY=test.riscv LOADMEM=testdata.hex LOADMEM_ADDR=81000000
+    make run-binary BINARY=test.riscv EXTRA_SIM_FLAGS="+loadmem=test.riscv"
 
-The ``.hex`` file should be a text file with a hexadecimal number on each line.
-
-.. code-block:: text
-
-    deadbeef
-    0123
-
-Each line uses little-endian order, so this file would produce the bytes "ef be ad de 01 23". ``LOADMEM_ADDR`` specifies which address in memory (in hexadecimal) to write the first byte to. The default is 0x81000000.
-
-A special target that facilitates automatically generating a hex file for an entire elf RISC-V exectuable and then running the simulator with the appropriate flags is also available.
+For convenience, special ``-loadmem`` targets are provided to automatically rely on loadmem to read in the binary.
 
 .. code-block:: shell
 
-    make run-binary-hex BINARY=test.riscv
+    make run-binary-loadmem BINARY=test.riscv
 
 Generating Waveforms
 -----------------------

docs/Software/Spike.rst

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Spike-as-a-Tile can be configured with custom IPC, commit logging, and other beh
 
 ..  code-block:: shell
 
-    make CONFIG=SpikeUltraFastConfig run-binary-hex BINARY=hello.riscv EXTRA_SPIKE_FLAGS="+spike-ipc=10000 +spike-fast-clint +spike-debug"
+    make CONFIG=SpikeUltraFastConfig run-binary-loadmem BINARY=hello.riscv EXTRA_SPIKE_FLAGS="+spike-ipc=10000 +spike-fast-clint +spike-debug"
 
 
 * ``+spike-ipc=``: Sets the maximum number of instructions Spike can retire in a single "tick", or cycle of the uncore simulation.