| Ali Saidi | de90be3 | 2006-06-29 16:52:47 -0400 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | This is release 2.0 of the M5 simulator. |
| Steve Reinhardt | 73f78b9 | 2003-10-17 09:32:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | |
| Ali Saidi | de90be3 | 2006-06-29 16:52:47 -0400 | [diff] [blame^] | 3 | For information about building the simulator and getting started please refer |
| 4 | to: http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/ |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Specific Pages of Interest are: |
| 7 | http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5 |
| 8 | http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/wiki/index.php/Running_M5 |
| 9 | |
| 10 | If you have questions, please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net. |
| Steve Reinhardt | 73f78b9 | 2003-10-17 09:32:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | |
| 12 | WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT) |
| 13 | ------------------------- |
| 14 | |
| Steve Reinhardt | a7974ee | 2005-10-06 13:59:05 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | The basic source release includes these subdirectories: |
| Ali Saidi | de90be3 | 2006-06-29 16:52:47 -0400 | [diff] [blame^] | 16 | - m5: |
| 17 | - src: source code of the m5 simulator |
| 18 | - test: regression tests |
| 19 | - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5 |
| 20 | - system/alpha: source for Alpha console and PALcode |
| Steve Reinhardt | 73f78b9 | 2003-10-17 09:32:00 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | |
| Steve Reinhardt | a7974ee | 2005-10-06 13:59:05 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled console, |
| 23 | PALcode, and kernel binaries and one or more disk images. These files |
| Ali Saidi | de90be3 | 2006-06-29 16:52:47 -0400 | [diff] [blame^] | 24 | are collected in a separate archive, m5_system_2.0.tar.bz2. This file |
| Steve Reinhardt | a7974ee | 2005-10-06 13:59:05 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 25 | is included on the CD release, or you can download it separately from |
| 26 | Sourceforge. |
| 27 | |
| 28 | M5 supports Linux 2.4/2.6, FreeBSD, and the proprietary Compaq/HP |
| 29 | Tru64 version of Unix. We are able to distribute Linux and FreeBSD |
| 30 | bootdisks, but we are unable to distribute bootable disk images of |
| 31 | Tru64 Unix. If you have a Tru64 license and are interested in |
| 32 | obtaining disk images, contact us at m5-dev@eecs.umich.edu. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | The CD release includes a few extra goodies, such as a tar file |
| 35 | containing doxygen-generated HTML documentation (html-docs.tar.gz), a |
| 36 | set of Linux source patches (linux_m5-2.6.8.1.diff), and the scons |
| 37 | program needed to build M5. If you do not have the CD, the same HTML |
| 38 | documentation is available online at http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/docs, |
| 39 | the Linux source patches are available at |
| Ali Saidi | de90be3 | 2006-06-29 16:52:47 -0400 | [diff] [blame^] | 40 | http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/dist/linux_m5-2.6.8.1.diff, the scons |
| 41 | program is available from http://www.scons.org, and swig is available from |
| 42 | http://www.swig.org. |
| Ali Saidi | df61a1d | 2004-07-28 17:56:36 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | |
| Steve Reinhardt | 40696cc | 2005-08-19 00:10:45 -0400 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | |
