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11897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduThis is release 2.0_beta of the M5 simulator. 24130Ssaidi@eecs.umich.edu 31897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduFor detailed information about building the simulator and getting 41897Sstever@eecs.umich.edustarted please refer to http://www.m5sim.org. 51897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 61897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduSpecific pages of interest are: 71897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduhttp://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5 81897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduhttp://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Running_M5 91897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 101897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduShort version: 111897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 121897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu1. If you don't have SCons version 0.96.91 or newer, get it from 131897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduhttp://wwww.scons.org. 141897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 151897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu2. If you don't have SWIG version 1.3.28 or newer, get it from 161897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduhttp://wwww.swig.org. 171897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 181897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu3. In this directory, type 'scons build/ALPHA_SE/tests/debug/quick'. This 191897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduwill build the debug version of the m5 binary (m5.debug) for the Alpha 201897Sstever@eecs.umich.edusyscall emulation target, and run the quick regression tests on it. 211897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 221897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduIf you have questions, please send mail to m5-users@m5sim.org 231897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 241897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduWHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT) 251897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu------------------------- 261897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 271897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduThe basic source release includes these subdirectories: 281897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu - m5: 291897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu - src: source code of the m5 simulator 301897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu - tests: regression tests 311897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5 321897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu - system/alpha: source for Alpha console and PALcode 331897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 344961Ssaidi@eecs.umich.eduTo run full-system simulations, you will need compiled console, 351897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduPALcode, and kernel binaries and one or more disk images. These files 361897Sstever@eecs.umich.eduare collected in a separate archive, m5_system.tar.bz2. This file 371897Sstever@eecs.umich.educan he downloaded separately. 381897Sstever@eecs.umich.edu 397047Snate@binkert.orgM5 supports Linux 2.4/2.6, FreeBSD, and the proprietary Compaq/HP 408319Ssteve.reinhardt@amd.comTru64 version of Unix. We are able to distribute Linux and FreeBSD 417047Snate@binkert.orgbootdisks, but we are unable to distribute bootable disk images of 428319Ssteve.reinhardt@amd.comTru64 Unix. If you have a Tru64 license and are interested in 4311706Sandreas.hansson@arm.comobtaining disk images, contact us at m5-dev@eecs.umich.edu. 448811Sandreas.hansson@arm.com