misc: README direct to website for dependencies

This patch updates the README to direct the user to the appropriate
sections on the gem5.org website rather than duplicating information.

gem5: Update the README file to be a bit less out-of-date.

Info: Clean up some info files.

Get rid of RELEASE_NOTES since we no longer do releases, update some of the
information in README, and update the date in LICENSE.

Update the README and RELEASE_NOTES files to prepare for beta 6.

Update make release, README, and RELEASE_NOTES for b5

RELEASE: First cut of updated release files for 2.0b4

Update for 2.0 beta 1 patch 1

fix e-mail addr in readme

fixes for gcc 4.1
Nate needs to fix sinic builder stuff
Gabe needs to verify my fixes to decoder.isa

OPT/DEBUG compiles for ALPHA_FS, ALPHA_SE, MIPS_SE, SPARC_SE with this changeset

README:
Fix the swig version in the readme
src/SConscript:
remove sinic until nate fixes the builder crap for it
src/arch/alpha/system.hh:
src/arch/mips/isa/includes.isa:
src/arch/sparc/isa/decoder.isa:
src/base/stats/visit.cc:
src/base/timebuf.hh:
src/dev/ide_disk.cc:
src/dev/sinic.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr.cc:
src/mem/cache/miss/mshr_queue.cc:
src/mem/packet.hh:
src/mem/request.hh:
src/sim/builder.hh:
src/sim/system.hh:
fixes for gcc 4.1

README:
Fix SWIG version number.

README:
Fix SWIG version number.

Update release files.

README:
Add brief build instructions for the impatient.
A few minor fixes.
RELEASE_NOTES:
Change date; add beta disclaimer.

Changes for release.

README:
s/m5.eecs.umich.edu/www.m5sim.org/
whack mentions of "CD distribution"
RELEASE_NOTES:
Set date of 2.0 beta release
Fix typo

Update the readme to point people to m5.eecs.umich.edu
start a new release section in RELEASE_NOTES
add AUTHORS file that still needs work

README:
Update the readme to point people to m5.eecs.umich.edu
RELEASE_NOTES:
start a new release section

More documentation for 1.1 release.

README:
More updates for 1.1 release.

Update README for IOSCA release.

README:
Update for IOSCA release.

Regression tests now run under scons!
For example, 'scons ALPHA_SE/test/opt/quick' will build
ALPHA_SE/m5.opt if necessary and run all the self-identified
"quick" tests on it. Other possibilities:
- Run just test1: scons ALPHA_SE/test/opt/test1
- Run all tests: scons ALPHA_SE/test/opt
- Run all tests on debug build: scons ALPHA_SE/test/debug
- Update test1 reference outputs in m5-test:
scons update_ref=y ALPHA_SE/test/opt/test1
The proper tests will be selected based on the setting
of FULL_SYSTEM, ALPHA_TLASER, etc.

README:
Update directions to use scons-based test invocation.
SConscript:
Return list of generated build environments to SConstruct
so it can associate tests with each of them.
Set 'M5Binary' attribute on each env to record name of
generated binary to be tested.
build/SConstruct:
- Support invoking m5-test tests via scons.
- Add new non-sticky option category, for 'update_ref'.
- Move existing "sticky" option definitions out of
build_dir loop. Someday we can generate help text
from these.
- Make 'CC' and 'CXX' sticky options; use environment vars as
defaults if available.
- Make config builder more scons-y.
python/m5/__init__.py:
Make AddToPath() correctly handle relative path arguments.
Assumes that sys.path[0] has the directory where the current
Python file lives; new m5execfile() function sets this up
properly for exec'd files.

A few minor fixes to get things to build on Cygwin.

README:
Clarify cygwin EIO error explanation.
build/SConstruct:
Cygwin header files cause uninitialized var warnings.
dev/ide_ctrl.cc:
Get rid of unnecessary byte-swap calls, some of which were
too ambiguous for cygwin (or gcc 3.4.4).
dev/pcidev.cc:
Disambiguate arg for overloaded byte swap operation
(and fix it to be the correct one).

Minor tweaks for 1.1 release.

README:
Updated for release 1.1. Clarified several minor things (I hope).

Now it's no longer a beta release

Rename builds more descriptively:
ALPHA -> ALPHA_SE (for Syscall Emulation)
KERNEL -> ALPHA_FS
KERN_TLASER -> ALPHA_FS_TL
Also renamed configs/kernel dir to configs/fullsys.

README:
build/SConstruct:
Rename builds more descriptively.

updated readme to reflect linux/scons changes
Put correct date in copyright headers based on bk changesets

LICENSE:
Updated copyright on license file
README:
Updaded readme to reflect shift to scons and linux support
cpu/trace/reader/ibm_reader.cc:
cpu/trace/reader/ibm_reader.hh:
cpu/trace/reader/itx_reader.cc:
cpu/trace/reader/itx_reader.hh:
cpu/trace/reader/m5_reader.cc:
cpu/trace/reader/m5_reader.hh:
cpu/trace/reader/mem_trace_reader.cc:
cpu/trace/reader/mem_trace_reader.hh:
cpu/trace/trace_cpu.cc:
cpu/trace/trace_cpu.hh:
updated copyright (only changeset in 2004)
kern/kernel_stats.cc:
kern/kernel_stats.hh:
updated copyright

Add a README for the release. Ideally we would move this up a level (to the
top-level release dir) before shipping it.