diff --git a/meta-arm/meta-gem5/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-native.inc b/meta-arm/meta-gem5/recipes-devtools/gem5/gem5-aarch64-native.inc
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+# gem5 aarch64 specific configuration
+
+# Build arm64 gem5
+GEM5_BUILD_CONFIGS ?= "build/ARM/gem5.${GEM5_BUILD_VARIANT}"
+
+SRC_URI += "file://start-gem5.sh"
+
+inherit deploy
+
+# Parameters for the start script
+
+GEM5_RUN_CONFIG ?= "gem5.${GEM5_BUILD_VARIANT}"
+
+# Linux kernel file to boot
+GEM5_RUN_KERNEL ?= "vmlinux"
+
+# Disk Image to use
+GEM5_RUN_DISK ?= "*-${MACHINE}.ext4"
+
+# DTB to use
+GEM5_RUN_DTB ?= "${@os.path.basename(d.getVar('KERNEL_DEVICETREE'))}"
+
+# Linux command line to pass
+GEM5_RUN_CMDLINE ?= "earlyprintk=pl011,0x1c090000 console=ttyAMA0 rw mem=512MB root=/dev/sda rootwait"
+
+# Extra arguments to pass to gem5
+GEM5_RUN_EXTRA ?= "--mem-size=512MB -n 4 --machine-type=VExpress_GEM5_V2"
+
+#This is required so that our binaries are in the sysroot. We need this
+# to have both gem5 required libraries and gem5 in the same sysroot.
+addtask addto_recipe_sysroot after do_populate_sysroot before do_build
+
+do_deploy[sstate-outputdirs] = "${DEPLOY_DIR_TOOLS}"
+do_deploy() {
+    install -d ${DEPLOYDIR}
+
+    install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/start-gem5.sh ${DEPLOYDIR}/.
+}
+addtask deploy before do_build after do_compile
+