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| -rw-r--r-- | AUTHORS | 1 | ||||
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@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Steven K. Reinhardt * ISA parsing * SWIG intergration * New memory system +* New Caches * Simple CPU * Instruction tracing * PC sampling @@ -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 -------------------- |