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Nathan Binkert 357ee7a845 Better pool job handling
util/pbs/job.py:
    the default jobfile is now Test.py in the root of the jobs directory
util/pbs/pbs.py:
    Clean up the qsub options handling and add job dependencies
util/pbs/send.py:
    the default jobfile is now Test.py in the root of the jobs directory
    add a flag to depend on your checkpoint
    add a flag to specify your node type
    create the base directory if it doesn't exist

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arch Clean up indentation in isa_desc. 2005-09-24 18:17:51 -04:00
base Clean up symbol table access functions and make it 2005-10-12 17:18:10 -04:00
build Add default= option to SConstruct. 2005-10-01 11:32:33 -04:00
configs various changes to the boot scripts 2005-09-16 22:54:01 -04:00
cpu add a flag that supercedes all other InstExec flags to print a trace in the Intel sim compatible format. 2005-10-09 18:20:54 -04:00
dev better english in stat descriptions for NS GigE 2005-10-12 13:53:10 -04:00
docs Many files: 2005-06-05 05:16:00 -04:00
encumbered/cpu/full Many files: 2005-06-05 05:16:00 -04:00
kern Clean up some formatting 2005-09-30 13:34:43 -04:00
python Add execution trace object to Root. 2005-10-06 13:50:13 -04:00
sim Fix for g++ 4 warning... not sure why this is just popping up now. 2005-10-13 23:47:31 -04:00
test fix tokenize 2005-06-22 09:52:02 -04:00
util Better pool job handling 2005-10-18 15:05:01 -04:00
Doxyfile Fix minor doxygen issues. 2005-06-05 08:08:29 -04:00
LICENSE Fix a few broken or inconsistently formatted copyrights 2005-06-05 05:08:37 -04:00
README More documentation for 1.1 release. 2005-10-06 13:59:05 -04:00
RELEASE_NOTES More documentation for 1.1 release. 2005-10-06 13:59:05 -04:00
SConscript Add functions to System object to set up function-based events, 2005-09-24 14:20:29 -04:00

This is release m5_1.1 of the M5 simulator.

This file contains brief "getting started" instructions.  For more
information, see http://m5.eecs.umich.edu.  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-test: regression tests
 - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5
 - alpha-system: 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
is included on the CD release, or you can download it separately from
Sourceforge.

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.

The CD release includes a few extra goodies, such as a tar file
containing doxygen-generated HTML documentation (html-docs.tar.gz), a
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
program is available from http://www.scons.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).