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authorAli Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>2007-10-31 01:21:54 -0400
committerAli Saidi <saidi@eecs.umich.edu>2007-10-31 01:21:54 -0400
commitbf02aed7b7466ba7a5fe111b77949462c8884f95 (patch)
tree50513602f944c983e66ab6e18dcb0cfeb1257d8f
parent538fae951b3a594814dff6bb6d038c32caadb25c (diff)
downloadgem5-bf02aed7b7466ba7a5fe111b77949462c8884f95.tar.xz
RELEASE: First cut of updated release files for 2.0b4
--HG-- extra : convert_revision : 5d906cfd568e18e082235e515b955efb6a25912a
-rw-r--r--AUTHORS1
-rw-r--r--README5
-rw-r--r--RELEASE_NOTES37
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 848e3e1df..d9c27468f 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Steven K. Reinhardt
* ISA parsing
* SWIG intergration
* New memory system
+* New Caches
* Simple CPU
* Instruction tracing
* PC sampling
diff --git a/README b/README
index 0f61a0416..915e46b12 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is release 2.0_beta (patch 1) of the M5 simulator.
+This is release 2.0_beta4 of the M5 simulator.
For detailed information about building the simulator and getting
started please refer to http://www.m5sim.org.
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
- src: source code of the m5 simulator
- 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
@@ -40,4 +39,4 @@ 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.
+obtaining disk images, contact us at m5-users@m5sim.org
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index e91f5432d..103bc0b7a 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -1,17 +1,30 @@
Outstanding issues for 2.0 release:
--------------------
-1. Fix multi-level coherence/dma issues
-2. Fix O3 CPU bug in SE 40.perlbmk fails
-3. Fix O3 processing nacks/coherence messages
-4. Better statistics for the caches.
-5. Clean up more SimObject parameter stuff
-6. Checkpoint/switchover testing
-7. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin
-8. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin
-9. Make repository public
-10. Testing
-11. Validation
-12. Testing
+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
+9. Testing
+
+Nov XX, 2007: m5_2.0_beta4
+--------------------
+New Features
+1. New cache
+2. Ability to include compiled code with EXTRAS=
+3. Python creation of params structures for initialization
+4. Ability to remotely debug in SE
+
+Bug fixes:
+1. Fix SE serialization
+2. SPARC_FS booting with TimingSimpleCPU
+3. Rename cycles() to ticks()
+4. Various SPARC ISA fixes
+5. Draining code for checkpointing
+6. Various performance improvements
May 16, 2007: m5_2.0_beta3
--------------------