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@@ -1,21 +1,27 @@ -This is release m5_1.1 of the M5 simulator. +This is release 2.0 of the M5 simulator. -This file contains brief "getting started" instructions. For more -information, see http://m5.eecs.umich.edu. If you have questions, -please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net. +For information about building the simulator and getting started please refer +to: http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/ + +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 + +If you have questions, please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net. WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT) ------------------------- The basic source release includes these subdirectories: - - m5: the simulator itself - - m5-test: regression tests - - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5 - - alpha-system: source for Alpha console and PALcode + - m5: + - src: source code of the m5 simulator + - test: 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_1.1.tar.bz2. This file +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. @@ -31,66 +37,8 @@ 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, and the scons -program is available from http://www.scons.org. - -WHAT'S NEEDED -------------- -- GCC version 3.3 or newer -- Python 2.3 or newer -- SCons 0.96.1 or newer (see http://www.scons.org) - -WHAT'S RECOMMENDED ------------------- -- MySQL (for statistics complex statistics storage/retrieval) -- Python-MysqlDB (for statistics analysis) - -GETTING STARTED ---------------- - -There are two different build targets and three optimizations levels: - -Target: -------- -ALPHA_SE - Syscall emulation simulation -ALPHA_FS - Full system simulation - -Optimization: -------------- -m5.debug - debug version of the code with tracing and without optimization -m5.opt - optimized version of code with tracing -m5.fast - optimized version of the code without tracing and asserts - -Different targets are built in different subdirectories of m5/build. -Binaries with the same target but different optimization levels share -the same directory. Note that you can build m5 in any directory you -choose;p just configure the target directory using the 'mkbuilddir' -script in m5/build. - -The following steps will build and test the simulator. The variable -"$top" refers to the top directory where you've unpacked the files, -i.e., the one containing the m5, m5-test, and ext directories. If you -have a multiprocessor system, you should give scons a "-j N" argument (like -make) to run N jobs in parallel. - -To build and test the syscall-emulation simulator: - - cd $top/m5/build - scons ALPHA_SE/test/opt/quick - -This process takes under 10 minutes on a dual 3GHz Xeon system (using -the '-j 4' option). - -To build and test the full-system simulator: - -1. Unpack the full-system binaries from m5_system_1.1.tar.bz2. (See - above for directions on obtaining this file if you don't have it.) - This package includes disk images and kernel, palcode, and console - binaries for Linux and FreeBSD. -2. Edit the SYSTEMDIR search path in $top/m5-test/SysPaths.py to - include the path to your local copy of the binaries. -3. In $top/m5/build, run "scons ALPHA_FS/test/opt/quick". +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. -This process also takes under 10 minutes on a dual 3GHz Xeon system -(again using the '-j 4' option). |