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authorGabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>2008-10-07 00:53:25 -0400
committerGabe Black <gblack@eecs.umich.edu>2008-10-07 00:53:25 -0400
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Update the README and RELEASE_NOTES files to prepare for beta 6.
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+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:
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-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
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