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1131Sstever@eecs.umich.eduThis is release m5_1.0_beta1 of the M5 simulator. 2131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 3131Sstever@eecs.umich.eduThis file contains brief "getting started" information and release 4131Sstever@eecs.umich.edunotes. For more information, see http://m5.eecs.umich.edu. If you 5131Sstever@eecs.umich.eduhave questions, please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net. 6131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 7131Sstever@eecs.umich.eduWHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT) 8131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu------------------------- 9131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 10131Sstever@eecs.umich.eduSince you're reading this file, presumably you've managed to untar the 11131Sstever@eecs.umich.edudistribution. The archive you've unpacked has three subdirectories: 12131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu - m5: the simulator itself 13131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu - m5-test: regression tests and scripts to run them 14131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5 151028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu (currently ply and libelf) 16131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 171028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.eduM5 is a capable, full-system simulator that current supports both Linux 181028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu2.4/2.6 and the proprietary Compaq/HP Tru64 version of Unix. We are able 191028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.eduto distribute Linux bootdisks, but we are unable to distribute bootable 201028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edudisk images of Tru64 Unix. If you have a Tru64 license and are interested 211028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.eduin obtaining disk images, contact us at m5-dev@eecs.umich.edu. 221028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu 231028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.eduWHAT'S NEEDED 241028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu------------- 251028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu-GCC(3.X) 261704Sstever@eecs.umich.edu-Python(2.4+) 271028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu 281028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.eduWHAT'S RECOMMENDED 291028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu------------------ 301028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu-MySQL (for statistics complex statistics storage/retrieval) 311028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu-Python-MysqlDB (for statistics analysis) 32131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 33131Sstever@eecs.umich.eduGETTING STARTED 34131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu--------------- 35131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 36131Sstever@eecs.umich.eduThe following steps will build and test the simulator. The variable 37131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu"$top" refers to the top directory where you've unpacked the files, 38131Sstever@eecs.umich.edui.e., the one containing the m5, m5-test, and ext directories. 39131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 401028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.eduThere are three different build targets and three optimizations in each level: 411028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.eduTarget: 421028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu------- 431704Sstever@eecs.umich.eduALPHA_SE - Syscall emulation simulation 441704Sstever@eecs.umich.eduALPHA_FS - Linux full system simulation 451704Sstever@eecs.umich.eduALPHA_FS_TL - Tru64 (Turbolaser) Unix full system simulation 461028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu 471028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.eduOptimization: 481028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu------------- 491028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edum5.debug - debug version of the code with tracing and without optimization 501028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edum5.opt - optimized version of code with tracing 511028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edum5.fast - optimized version of the code without tracing and asserts 521028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu 531028Ssaidi@eecs.umich.educd $top/m5/build 541704Sstever@eecs.umich.eduscons TARGET/OPTLEVL # e.g. ALPHA_FS/m5.opt, use -j N if you have a MP system 55131Sstever@eecs.umich.educd $top/m5-test 561704Sstever@eecs.umich.edu./do-tests.pl -B ALPHA_SE # test what you just built 571704Sstever@eecs.umich.edu./do-tests.pl -B ALPHA_FS # test what you just built 58131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu# wait for tests to run... 59131Sstever@eecs.umich.edu# should end with "finished do-tests successfully!" 60