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Update the README and RELEASE_NOTES files to prepare for beta 6.

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This is release 2.0_beta5 of the M5 simulator. This is release 2.0_beta6 of the M5 simulator.
For detailed information about building the simulator and getting For detailed information about building the simulator and getting
started please refer to http://www.m5sim.org. started please refer to http://www.m5sim.org.

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October 6, 2008: m5_2.0_beta6
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New Features
1. Support for gcc 4.3
2. Core m5 code in libm5 for integration with other simulators
3. Preliminary support for X86 SE mode
4. Additional system calls emulated
5. m5term updated to work on OS X
6. Ability to disable listen sockets
7. Event queue performance improvements and rewrite
8. Better errors for unconnected memory ports
Bug fixes
1. ALPHA_SE O3 perlbmk benchmark
2. Translation bug where O3 could fetch from uncachable memory
3. Many minor bugs
Outstanding issues for 2.0 release: Outstanding issues for 2.0 release:
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1. Fix O3 CPU bug in SE 40.perlbmk fails 1. Statistics cleanup
2. Fix O3 processing nacks/coherence messages 2. Improve regression system
3. Better statistics for the caches. 3. Testing
4. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin 4. Validation
5. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin
6. Make repository public
7. Testing
8. Validation
March 1, 2008: m5_2.0_beta5 March 1, 2008: m5_2.0_beta5
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