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1This is release 2.0 of the M5 simulator.
1This is release 2.0_beta of the M5 simulator.
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2
3For information about building the simulator and getting started please refer
4to: http://www.m5sim.org/
3For detailed information about building the simulator and getting
4started please refer to http://www.m5sim.org.
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5
6Specific Pages of Interest are:
6Specific pages of interest are:
7http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5
8http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Running_M5
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7http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5
8http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Running_M5
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10Short version:
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121. If you don't have SCons version 0.96.91 or newer, get it from
13http://wwww.scons.org.
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152. If you don't have SWIG version 0.96.91 or newer, get it from
16http://wwww.swig.org.
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183. In this directory, type 'scons build/ALPHA_SE/tests/debug/quick'. This
19will build the debug version of the m5 binary (m5.debug) for the Alpha
20syscall emulation target, and run the quick regression tests on it.
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10If you have questions, please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net.
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12WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT)
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14
15The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
16 - m5:
17 - src: source code of the m5 simulator
18 - tests: regression tests
19 - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5
20 - system/alpha: source for Alpha console and PALcode
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22To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled console,
23PALcode, and kernel binaries and one or more disk images. These files
22If you have questions, please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net.
23
24WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT)
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26
27The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
28 - m5:
29 - src: source code of the m5 simulator
30 - tests: regression tests
31 - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5
32 - system/alpha: source for Alpha console and PALcode
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34To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled console,
35PALcode, and kernel binaries and one or more disk images. These files
24are collected in a separate archive, m5_system_2.0.tar.bz2. This file
25can he downloaded separately from Sourceforge.
36are collected in a separate archive, m5_system_1.1.tar.bz2. This file
37can he downloaded separately.
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27M5 supports Linux 2.4/2.6, FreeBSD, and the proprietary Compaq/HP
28Tru64 version of Unix. We are able to distribute Linux and FreeBSD
29bootdisks, but we are unable to distribute bootable disk images of
30Tru64 Unix. If you have a Tru64 license and are interested in
31obtaining disk images, contact us at m5-dev@eecs.umich.edu.
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39M5 supports Linux 2.4/2.6, FreeBSD, and the proprietary Compaq/HP
40Tru64 version of Unix. We are able to distribute Linux and FreeBSD
41bootdisks, but we are unable to distribute bootable disk images of
42Tru64 Unix. If you have a Tru64 license and are interested in
43obtaining disk images, contact us at m5-dev@eecs.umich.edu.