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Nathan Binkert a3a1b4dbae better debugging dev/ns_gige.cc: Make all DPRINTF statements take one line. If they need two lines, break them up into separate statements. This makes grep much more effective since every line will be prefixed by the cycle that the trace message is from and the object that caused the message. normalize some debugging statements so that searching is easier (e.g. always say rxState, not rx state or receive state) break into the debugger when a packet is dropped since we don't really like dropping packets. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : 9cf309ca2143a6b8c8215ac5dd6a31aae60173cd		2004-07-30 11:33:45 -04:00
arch	fixed a bad merge from linux<->tru64	2004-07-08 00:28:02 -04:00
base	Move all of the object matching code to a shared file so it can	2004-07-30 10:47:53 -04:00
build	Initial SCons-based build system. See www.scons.org.	2004-07-02 21:16:38 -07:00
configs/boot	fix paths for changes in disk image layout	2004-07-14 09:06:56 -04:00
cpu	updated readme to reflect linux/scons changes	2004-07-28 17:56:36 -04:00
dev	better debugging	2004-07-30 11:33:45 -04:00
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kern	Make the DDUMP tracing feature output the cycle number and	2004-07-30 10:18:04 -04:00
sim	Move all of the object matching code to a shared file so it can	2004-07-30 10:47:53 -04:00
test	Updated Copyright with information in bitkeeper changelogs	2004-06-08 13:37:27 -04:00
util	put the formatting fixes back into devtime	2004-07-12 23:01:53 -04:00
Doxyfile	Update for doxygen 1.3.6	2004-05-04 16:32:43 -04:00
LICENSE	updated readme to reflect linux/scons changes	2004-07-28 17:56:36 -04:00
README	updated readme to reflect linux/scons changes	2004-07-28 17:56:36 -04:00
SConscript	Move all of the object matching code to a shared file so it can	2004-07-30 10:47:53 -04:00

README

This is release m5_1.0_beta1 of the M5 simulator.

This file contains brief "getting started" information and release
notes.  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)
-------------------------

Since you're reading this file, presumably you've managed to untar the
distribution.  The archive you've unpacked has three subdirectories:
 - m5: the simulator itself
 - m5-test: regression tests and scripts to run them
 - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5
   (currently ply and libelf)

M5 is a capable, full-system simulator that current supports both Linux
2.4/2.6 and the proprietary Compaq/HP Tru64 version of Unix. We are able 
to distribute Linux 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.

WHAT'S NEEDED
-------------
-GCC(3.X)
-Python(2.2.2+)

WHAT'S RECOMMENDED
------------------
-MySQL (for statistics complex statistics storage/retrieval)
-Python-MysqlDB (for statistics analysis) 

GETTING STARTED
---------------

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.

There are three different build targets and three optimizations in each level:
Target:
-------
ALPHA  - Syscall emulation simulation
KERNEL - Linux full system simulation
KERNEL_TLASER - Tru64 Unix 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

cd $top/m5/build
scons TARGET/OPTLEVL  # e.g. KERNEL/m5.opt, use -j N if you have a MP system
cd $top/m5-test
./do-tests.pl -B ALPHA	# test what you just built
./do-tests.pl -B KERNEL	# test what you just built
# wait for tests to run...
# should end with "finished do-tests successfully!"