README revision 2981
1This is release 2.0 of the M5 simulator. 2 3For information about building the simulator and getting started please refer 4to: http://www.m5sim.org/ 5 6Specific Pages of Interest are: 7http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5 8http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Running_M5 9 10If you have questions, please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net. 11 12WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT) 13------------------------- 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 21 22To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled console, 23PALcode, 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. 26 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. 32