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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES deleted file mode 100644 index f10ffddae..000000000 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,149 +0,0 @@ -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. Statistics cleanup -2. Improve regression system -3. Testing -4. Validation - -March 1, 2008: m5_2.0_beta5 --------------------- -New Features -1. Rick Strong's Simpoints config changes -2. Support for FSU ARM port -3. EXTRAS= option allow architectures to be specified - -Bug fixes -1. Bus timing more realistic -2. Cache writeback, LL/SC fixes -3. Minor IGbE NIC fixes -4. O3 op latency fix -5. SPARC TLB demap fixes -6. SPARC SE memory layout fixes -7. Variety of MIPS fixes - -Nov 4, 2007: m5_2.0_beta4 --------------------- -New Features -1. New cache model -2. Use of a I/O cache between devices and memory -3. Ability to include compiled code with EXTRAS= -4. Python creation of params structures for initialization -5. 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 - -Possible Incompatibilities: -1. Real TLBs are now used in SE mode. This is more accurate however it could - cause some problems if you've modified the way page handling is done in - SE mode. -2. There have been many changes to the way the SCons files work. SimObjects, - sources files, and trace flags are all specified in the SConscript files. - To see how to add your sources take a look at one of them. -3. Python is now used to created the parameter structs that were created - manually before. The parameters listed in a py file are turned into - a header file with the same name (e.g. BadDevice.py -> BadDevice.hh). - With this change the structs can be populated automatically and the - ugly macros to define and create SimObjects at the bottem of source - files are gone. The parameter structs also automatically inherit - parameters from their parents. - -May 16, 2007: m5_2.0_beta3 --------------------- -New Features -1. Some support for SPARC full-system simulation -2. Reworking of trace facitities (parameter names changed, variadic macros - removed) -3. Scons script cleanups -4. Some support for compiling with Intel CC - -Bug fixes since beta 2: -1. Many SPARC linux syscall emulation support fixes -2. Multiprocessor linux boot using the detailed O3 CPU module -3. Workaround for DMA bug (final solution to be released with 2.0f) -4. Simulator performance and memory leak fixes -5. Fixed issue where console could stop printing in ALPHA_FS -6. Fix issues with remote debugging -7. Several compile fixes, including gcc 4.1 -8. Many other minor fixes and enhancements - -Nov. 28, 2006: m5_2.0_beta2 --------------------- -Bug fixes since beta 1: -1. Many cache issues resolved -2. Uni-coherence fixes in full-system -3. LL/SC Support -4. Draining/Switchover -5. Functional Accesses -6. Bus now has real timing -7. Single config file for all SpecCPU2000 benchmarks -8. Several other minor bug fixes and enhancements - -Aug. 25, 2006: m5_2.0_beta patch 1 --------------------- -Handful of minor bug fixes for m5_2.0_beta, -along with a few new regression tests. - -Aug. 15, 2006: m5_2.0_beta --------------------- -Major update to M5 including: -- New CPU model -- New memory system -- More extensive python integration -- Preliminary syscall emulation support for MIPS and SPARC -This is a *beta* release, meaning that some features are not complete, -and some features from M5 1.X aren't currently supported (e.g., MP -coherence). We are working to address these limitations and hope to -have a complete 2.0 release soon. - -Oct. 8, 2005: m5_1.1 --------------------- -Update release for IOSCA workshop mini-tutorial. New features include: -- Preliminary FreeBSD support -- Integration of regression tests into scons build framework -- Several bug fixes and better compatibility for Cygwin hosts -- Major cleanup of Alpha system code (console, PAL, etc.) to make - it easier for others to build/modify -- Fixes to enable compilation under g++ 4.0 -- Numerous minor bug fixes - -June 10, 2005: m5_1.0_web -------------------------- -The 1.0 release posted on Sourceforge after the ISCA tutorial contains -just a few very minor fixes relative to the CD. - -June 5, 2005: m5_1.0_tutorial ------------------------------ -First non-beta release. This release was on the CD distributed at the -ISCA tutorial. Major enhancements relative to beta releases include -Linux support and Python-based configuration language. - -June 17, 2004: m5_1.0_beta2 ---------------------------- -Stealth-mode beta bug-fix update, not widely advertised. - -Oct. 17, 2003: m5_1.0_beta1 ---------------------------- -Early beta release. |