What is gator? What is the link between ARM DS-5 streamline and gator?

Question

In the Streamline documentation, there is a constant mention of gator. Can someone please explain what is this gator and what is the link between it and the Streamline?

Answer 1

Gator is a target agent required to run on the ARM Linux target in order for ARM Streamline to operate.

Gator may run in kernel space or user space mode. More information available here

• http://ds.arm.com/developer-resources/ds-5-documentation/streamline-user-guide/comparison-of-user-space-gator-and-kernel-space-gator
• https://github.com/ARM-software/gator/blob/master/README_Streamline.txt
• http://ds.arm.com/ds-5/optimize/streamline-faq/