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authorSteve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>2006-08-14 18:15:53 -0400
committerSteve Reinhardt <stever@eecs.umich.edu>2006-08-14 18:15:53 -0400
commita04552ce86d0c4311d70abe78035bd8a52f1a14b (patch)
treeac1baa66e3a3d303e2c70953dd5127817aa7b207
parentfc8b4f52537dafdfe10a9be912fe3f069d8a570d (diff)
downloadgem5-a04552ce86d0c4311d70abe78035bd8a52f1a14b.tar.xz
Changes for release.
README: s/m5.eecs.umich.edu/www.m5sim.org/ whack mentions of "CD distribution" RELEASE_NOTES: Set date of 2.0 beta release Fix typo --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 5baa113a98f89dbf56f60adb4513ca22b63673b1
-rw-r--r--README23
-rw-r--r--RELEASE_NOTES4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index 7bcbe9523..5f3ea3653 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
This is release 2.0 of the M5 simulator.
For information about building the simulator and getting started please refer
-to: http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/
+to: http://www.m5sim.org/
Specific Pages of Interest are:
-http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5
-http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/wiki/index.php/Running_M5
+http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5
+http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Running_M5
If you have questions, please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net.
@@ -15,30 +15,17 @@ WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT)
The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
- m5:
- src: source code of the m5 simulator
- - test: regression tests
+ - tests: regression tests
- ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5
- system/alpha: source for Alpha console and PALcode
To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled console,
PALcode, and kernel binaries and one or more disk images. These files
are collected in a separate archive, m5_system_2.0.tar.bz2. This file
-is included on the CD release, or you can download it separately from
-Sourceforge.
+can he downloaded separately from Sourceforge.
M5 supports Linux 2.4/2.6, FreeBSD, and the proprietary Compaq/HP
Tru64 version of Unix. We are able to distribute Linux and FreeBSD
bootdisks, but we are unable to distribute bootable disk images of
Tru64 Unix. If you have a Tru64 license and are interested in
obtaining disk images, contact us at m5-dev@eecs.umich.edu.
-
-The CD release includes a few extra goodies, such as a tar file
-containing doxygen-generated HTML documentation (html-docs.tar.gz), a
-set of Linux source patches (linux_m5-2.6.8.1.diff), and the scons
-program needed to build M5. If you do not have the CD, the same HTML
-documentation is available online at http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/docs,
-the Linux source patches are available at
-http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/dist/linux_m5-2.6.8.1.diff, the scons
-program is available from http://www.scons.org, and swig is available from
-http://www.swig.org.
-
-
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index 6eb9b1844..6184f244c 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-XXX. X, 2006: m5_2.0
+Aug. 14, 2006: m5_2.0_beta
--------------------
Major update to M5 including:
- New CPU model
-- Sew memory system
+- New memory system
- More extensive python integration
- Preliminary syscall emulation support for MIPS and SPARC