RELEASE: First cut of updated release files for 2.0b4

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AUTHORS

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Steven K. Reinhardt
 * ISA parsing
 * SWIG intergration
 * New memory system
+* New Caches
 * Simple CPU
 * Instruction tracing
 * PC sampling

README

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is release 2.0_beta (patch 1) of the M5 simulator.
+This is release 2.0_beta4 of the M5 simulator.
 
 For detailed information about building the simulator and getting
 started please refer to http://www.m5sim.org.
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
    - src: source code of the m5 simulator
    - tests: regression tests
    - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5
-   - system/alpha: source for Alpha console and PALcode
 
 To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled console,
 PALcode, and kernel binaries and one or more disk images.  These files
@@ -40,4 +39,4 @@ M5 supports Linux 2.4/2.6, FreeBSD, and the proprietary Compaq/HP
 Tru64 version of Unix. We are able to distribute Linux and FreeBSD
 bootdisks, but we are unable to distribute bootable disk images of
 Tru64 Unix. If you have a Tru64 license and are interested in
-obtaining disk images, contact us at m5-dev@eecs.umich.edu.
+obtaining disk images, contact us at m5-users@m5sim.org

RELEASE_NOTES

@@ -1,17 +1,30 @@
 Outstanding issues for 2.0 release:
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-1. Fix multi-level coherence/dma issues
-2. Fix O3 CPU bug in SE 40.perlbmk fails
-3. Fix O3 processing nacks/coherence messages
-4. Better statistics for the caches.
-5. Clean up more SimObject parameter stuff
-6. Checkpoint/switchover testing
-7. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin
-8. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin
-9. Make repository public
-10. Testing
-11. Validation
-12. Testing 
+1. Fix O3 CPU bug in SE 40.perlbmk fails
+2. Fix O3 processing nacks/coherence messages
+3. Better statistics for the caches.
+4. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin
+5. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin
+6. Make repository public
+7. Testing
+8. Validation
+9. Testing 
+
+Nov XX, 2007: m5_2.0_beta4
+--------------------
+New Features
+1. New cache 
+2. Ability to include compiled code with EXTRAS=
+3. Python creation of params structures for initialization
+4. Ability to remotely debug in SE 
+
+Bug fixes:
+1. Fix SE serialization
+2. SPARC_FS booting with TimingSimpleCPU
+3. Rename cycles() to ticks()
+4. Various SPARC ISA fixes
+5. Draining code for checkpointing
+6. Various performance improvements
 
 May 16, 2007: m5_2.0_beta3
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