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Gabe Black 91622602c2 Loader: Handle bad section names when loading an ELF file.
If there's a problem when reading the section names from a supposed ELF file,
this change makes gem5 print an error message as returned by libelf and die.
Previously these sorts of errors would make gem5 segfault when it tried to
access the section name through a NULL pointer.
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build_opts This patch adds the network tester for simple and garnet networks. 2011-03-21 22:51:58 -04:00
configs config: revamp x86 config to avoid appending to SimObjectVectors 2011-05-23 14:29:23 -07:00
ext LibElf: Build the error management code in libelf. 2011-06-12 23:51:59 -07:00
src Loader: Handle bad section names when loading an ELF file. 2011-06-12 23:52:21 -07:00
system ARM: Boot loader changes that make it more flexible about load and I/O addrs 2011-05-04 20:38:27 -05:00
tests sparc: update long regressions 2011-06-12 21:35:03 -04:00
util copyright: Add code for finding all copyright blocks and create a COPYING file 2011-06-02 17:36:07 -07:00
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README Info: Clean up some info files. 2011-02-14 21:36:37 -08:00
SConstruct SConstruct: automatically update .hg/hgrc with style hooks. 2011-06-02 21:23:02 -07:00

This is the M5 simulator.

For detailed information about building the simulator and getting
started please refer to http://www.m5sim.org.

Specific pages of interest are:
http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5
http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Running_M5

Short version:

1. If you don't have SCons version 0.98.1 or newer, get it from
http://wwww.scons.org.

2. If you don't have SWIG version 1.3.31 or newer, get it from
http://wwww.swig.org.

3. Make sure you also have gcc version 3.4.6 or newer, Python 2.4 or newer
(the dev version with header files), zlib, and the m4 preprocessor.

4. In this directory, type 'scons build/ALPHA_SE/tests/debug/quick'.  This
will build the debug version of the m5 binary (m5.debug) for the Alpha
syscall emulation target, and run the quick regression tests on it.

If you have questions, please send mail to m5-users@m5sim.org

WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT)
-------------------------

The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
 - m5:
   - configs: simulation configuration scripts
   - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5
   - src: source code of the m5 simulator
   - system: source for some optional system software for simulated systems
   - tests: regression tests
   - util: useful utility programs and files

To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled system firmware
(console and PALcode for Alpha), kernel binaries and one or more disk images. 
These files for Alpha are collected in a separate archive, m5_system.tar.bz2.
This file can he downloaded separately.

Depending on the ISA used, M5 may support 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-users@m5sim.org