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AUTHORS

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+Steven K. Reinhardt
+-----------------------
+
+Nathan L. Binkert
+-----------------------
+
+Erik G. Hallnor
+-----------------------
+
+Steve E. Raasch
+-----------------------
+
+Lisa R. Hsu
+-----------------------
+
+Ali G. Saidi
+-----------------------
+
+Andrew L. Schultz
+-----------------------
+
+Kevin T. Lim
+-----------------------
+
+Ronald G. Dreslinski Jr
+-----------------------
+
+Gabriel Black
+-----------------------
+
+Korey Sewell
+-----------------------
+
+David Green
+-----------------------
+
+Benjamin S. Nash
+-----------------------
+
+Miguel J. Serrano
+-----------------------
+

README

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-This is release m5_1.1 of the M5 simulator.
+This is release 2.0 of the M5 simulator.
 
-This file contains brief "getting started" instructions.  For more
+For information about building the simulator and getting started please refer
-information, see http://m5.eecs.umich.edu.  If you have questions,
+to: http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/
-please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net.
+
+Specific Pages of Interest are:
+http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5
+http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/wiki/index.php/Running_M5
+
+If you have questions, please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net.
 
 WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT)
 -------------------------
 
 The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
- - m5: the simulator itself
+ - m5: 
- - m5-test: regression tests
+   - src: source code of the m5 simulator
+   - test: regression tests
    - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5
- - alpha-system: source for Alpha console and PALcode
+   - 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
-are collected in a separate archive, m5_system_1.1.tar.bz2.  This file
+are collected in a separate archive, m5_system_2.0.tar.bz2.  This file
 is included on the CD release, or you can download it separately from
 Sourceforge.
 
@@ -31,66 +37,8 @@ set of Linux source patches (linux_m5-2.6.8.1.diff), and the scons
 program needed to build M5.  If you do not have the CD, the same HTML
 documentation is available online at http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/docs,
 the Linux source patches are available at
-http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/dist/linux_m5-2.6.8.1.diff, and the scons
+http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/dist/linux_m5-2.6.8.1.diff, the scons
-program is available from http://www.scons.org.
+program is available from http://www.scons.org, and swig is available from
+http://www.swig.org.
 
-WHAT'S NEEDED
--------------
-- GCC version 3.3 or newer
-- Python 2.3 or newer
-- SCons 0.96.1 or newer (see http://www.scons.org)
-
-WHAT'S RECOMMENDED
-------------------
-- MySQL (for statistics complex statistics storage/retrieval)
-- Python-MysqlDB (for statistics analysis) 
-
-GETTING STARTED
----------------
-
-There are two different build targets and three optimizations levels:
-
-Target:
--------
-ALPHA_SE - Syscall emulation simulation
-ALPHA_FS - Full system simulation
-
-Optimization:
--------------
-m5.debug - debug version of the code with tracing and without optimization
-m5.opt   - optimized version of code with tracing
-m5.fast  - optimized version of the code without tracing and asserts
-
-Different targets are built in different subdirectories of m5/build.
-Binaries with the same target but different optimization levels share
-the same directory.  Note that you can build m5 in any directory you
-choose;p just configure the target directory using the 'mkbuilddir'
-script in m5/build.
-
-The following steps will build and test the simulator.  The variable
-"$top" refers to the top directory where you've unpacked the files,
-i.e., the one containing the m5, m5-test, and ext directories.  If you
-have a multiprocessor system, you should give scons a "-j N" argument (like
-make) to run N jobs in parallel.
-
-To build and test the syscall-emulation simulator:
-
-	cd $top/m5/build
-	scons ALPHA_SE/test/opt/quick
-
-This process takes under 10 minutes on a dual 3GHz Xeon system (using
-the '-j 4' option).
-
-To build and test the full-system simulator:
-
-1. Unpack the full-system binaries from m5_system_1.1.tar.bz2.  (See
-   above for directions on obtaining this file if you don't have it.)
-   This package includes disk images and kernel, palcode, and console
-   binaries for Linux and FreeBSD.
-2. Edit the SYSTEMDIR search path in $top/m5-test/SysPaths.py to
-   include the path to your local copy of the binaries.
-3. In $top/m5/build, run "scons ALPHA_FS/test/opt/quick".
-
-This process also takes under 10 minutes on a dual 3GHz Xeon system
-(again using the '-j 4' option).
 

RELEASE_NOTES

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+XXX. X, 2006: m5_2.0
+--------------------
+Major update to M5 including:
+- New CPU model
+- Sew memory system
+- More extensive python integration
+- Preliminary syscall emulation support for MIPS and SPARC
+
 Oct. 8, 2005: m5_1.1
 --------------------
 Update release for IOSCA workshop mini-tutorial.  New features include: