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| author | Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> | 2008-10-07 00:53:25 -0400 |
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| committer | Gabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu> | 2008-10-07 00:53:25 -0400 |
| commit | fef5a4f49cdeb568590f96007494962e0dd3ce6b (patch) | |
| tree | 530d478bd9ae55e874d7668d2b19346c800325c2 | |
| parent | 6b2bb53fd6e59dee0c5524029c9422e2885d00d2 (diff) | |
| download | gem5-fef5a4f49cdeb568590f96007494962e0dd3ce6b.tar.xz | |
Update the README and RELEASE_NOTES files to prepare for beta 6.
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| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE_NOTES | 29 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 9 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This is release 2.0_beta5 of the M5 simulator. +This is release 2.0_beta6 of the M5 simulator. For detailed information about building the simulator and getting started please refer to http://www.m5sim.org. diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES index ad0278b89..f10ffddae 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -1,13 +1,26 @@ +October 6, 2008: m5_2.0_beta6 +-------------------- +New Features +1. Support for gcc 4.3 +2. Core m5 code in libm5 for integration with other simulators +3. Preliminary support for X86 SE mode +4. Additional system calls emulated +5. m5term updated to work on OS X +6. Ability to disable listen sockets +7. Event queue performance improvements and rewrite +8. Better errors for unconnected memory ports + +Bug fixes +1. ALPHA_SE O3 perlbmk benchmark +2. Translation bug where O3 could fetch from uncachable memory +3. Many minor bugs + Outstanding issues for 2.0 release: -------------------- -1. Fix O3 CPU bug in SE 40.perlbmk fails -2. Fix O3 processing nacks/coherence messages -3. Better statistics for the caches. -4. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin -5. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin -6. Make repository public -7. Testing -8. Validation +1. Statistics cleanup +2. Improve regression system +3. Testing +4. Validation March 1, 2008: m5_2.0_beta5 -------------------- |