| README (1901:2608cd7def85) | README (1905:178c8cd82a97) |
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| 1This is release m5_1.1 of the M5 simulator. 2 | 1This is release m5_1.1 of the M5 simulator. 2 |
| 3This file contains brief "getting started" information and release 4notes. For more information, see http://m5.eecs.umich.edu. If you 5have questions, please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net. | 3This file contains brief "getting started" instructions. For more 4information, see http://m5.eecs.umich.edu. If you have questions, 5please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net. |
| 6 7WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT) 8------------------------- 9 | 6 7WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT) 8------------------------- 9 |
| 10Since you're reading this file, presumably you've managed to untar the 11distribution. The archive you've unpacked has three subdirectories: | 10The basic source release includes these subdirectories: |
| 12 - m5: the simulator itself | 11 - m5: the simulator itself |
| 13 - m5-test: regression tests and scripts to run them | 12 - m5-test: regression tests |
| 14 - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5 15 - alpha-system: source for Alpha console and PALcode 16 | 13 - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5 14 - alpha-system: source for Alpha console and PALcode 15 |
| 17M5 is a capable, full-system simulator that current supports both Linux 182.4/2.6 and the proprietary Compaq/HP Tru64 version of Unix. We are able 19to distribute Linux bootdisks, but we are unable to distribute bootable 20disk images of Tru64 Unix. If you have a Tru64 license and are interested 21in obtaining disk images, contact us at m5-dev@eecs.umich.edu. | 16To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled console, 17PALcode, and kernel binaries and one or more disk images. These files 18are collected in a separate archive, m5_system_1.1.tar.bz2. This file 19is included on the CD release, or you can download it separately from 20Sourceforge. |
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| 22M5 supports Linux 2.4/2.6, FreeBSD, and the proprietary Compaq/HP 23Tru64 version of Unix. We are able to distribute Linux and FreeBSD 24bootdisks, but we are unable to distribute bootable disk images of 25Tru64 Unix. If you have a Tru64 license and are interested in 26obtaining disk images, contact us at m5-dev@eecs.umich.edu. 27 28The CD release includes a few extra goodies, such as a tar file 29containing doxygen-generated HTML documentation (html-docs.tar.gz), a 30set of Linux source patches (linux_m5-2.6.8.1.diff), and the scons 31program needed to build M5. If you do not have the CD, the same HTML 32documentation is available online at http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/docs, 33the Linux source patches are available at 34http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/dist/linux_m5-2.6.8.1.diff, and the scons 35program is available from http://www.scons.org. 36 |
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| 23WHAT'S NEEDED 24------------- 25- GCC version 3.3 or newer 26- Python 2.3 or newer 27- SCons 0.96.1 or newer (see http://www.scons.org) 28 29WHAT'S RECOMMENDED 30------------------ --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 45------------- 46m5.debug - debug version of the code with tracing and without optimization 47m5.opt - optimized version of code with tracing 48m5.fast - optimized version of the code without tracing and asserts 49 50Different targets are built in different subdirectories of m5/build. 51Binaries with the same target but different optimization levels share 52the same directory. Note that you can build m5 in any directory you | 37WHAT'S NEEDED 38------------- 39- GCC version 3.3 or newer 40- Python 2.3 or newer 41- SCons 0.96.1 or newer (see http://www.scons.org) 42 43WHAT'S RECOMMENDED 44------------------ --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 59------------- 60m5.debug - debug version of the code with tracing and without optimization 61m5.opt - optimized version of code with tracing 62m5.fast - optimized version of the code without tracing and asserts 63 64Different targets are built in different subdirectories of m5/build. 65Binaries with the same target but different optimization levels share 66the same directory. Note that you can build m5 in any directory you |
| 53choose by copying the SConstruct file there and creating symbolic links 54to the 'm5' and 'ext' directories. | 67choose;p just configure the target directory using the 'mkbuilddir' 68script in m5/build. |
| 55 56The following steps will build and test the simulator. The variable 57"$top" refers to the top directory where you've unpacked the files, 58i.e., the one containing the m5, m5-test, and ext directories. If you 59have a multiprocessor system, you should give scons a "-j N" argument (like 60make) to run N jobs in parallel. 61 62To build and test the syscall-emulation simulator: 63 64 cd $top/m5/build 65 scons ALPHA_SE/test/opt/quick 66 | 69 70The following steps will build and test the simulator. The variable 71"$top" refers to the top directory where you've unpacked the files, 72i.e., the one containing the m5, m5-test, and ext directories. If you 73have a multiprocessor system, you should give scons a "-j N" argument (like 74make) to run N jobs in parallel. 75 76To build and test the syscall-emulation simulator: 77 78 cd $top/m5/build 79 scons ALPHA_SE/test/opt/quick 80 |
| 67To build and test the full-system simualator: | 81This process takes under 10 minutes on a dual 3GHz Xeon system (using 82the '-j 4' option). |
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| 691. Unpack the full-system binaries from m5_system_1.1.tar.bz2. This file 70 is included on the CD release, or you can download it from 71 http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/dist/ m5_system_1.1.tar.bz2.) This package 72 includes disk images and kernel, palcode, and console binaries 73 for Linux and FreeBSD. 742. Edit SYSTEMDIR in $top/m5-test/SysPaths.py to point to your local copy 75 of the binaries. 763. In $top/m5/build, run "scons ALPHA_FS/opt/test/quick". | 84To build and test the full-system simulator: |
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| 861. Unpack the full-system binaries from m5_system_1.1.tar.bz2. (See 87 above for directions on obtaining this file if you don't have it.) 88 This package includes disk images and kernel, palcode, and console 89 binaries for Linux and FreeBSD. 902. Edit the SYSTEMDIR search path in $top/m5-test/SysPaths.py to 91 include the path to your local copy of the binaries. 923. In $top/m5/build, run "scons ALPHA_FS/test/opt/quick". 93 94This process also takes under 10 minutes on a dual 3GHz Xeon system 95(again using the '-j 4' option). 96 |
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