RELEASE_NOTES

   1 Outstanding issues for 2.0 release:
   2 --------------------
   3 1. Better statistics for the caches.
   4 2. Clean up more SimObject parameter stuff
   5 3. Checkpoint/switchover testing
   6 4. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin
   7 5. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin
   8 6. Make repository public
   9 7. Testing
  10 8. Validation
  11 9. Testing
  12
  13 Apr. XX, 2007: m5_2.0_beta3
  14 --------------------
  15 New Features
  16 1. Some support for SPARC full-system simulation
  17
  18 Bug fixes since beta 2:
  19 1. Many SPARC linux syscall emulation support fixes
  20 2. Multiprocessor linux boot using the detailed O3 CPU module
  21 3. Simulator performance and memory leak fixes
  22 4. Fix issues with remote debugging
  23 5. Several compile fixes, including gcc 4.1
  24 6. Many other minor fixes and enhancements
  25
  26 Nov. 28, 2006: m5_2.0_beta2
  27 --------------------
  28 Bug fixes since beta 1:
  29 1. Many cache issues resolved
  30 2. Uni-coherence fixes in full-system
  31 3. LL/SC Support
  32 4. Draining/Switchover
  33 5. Functional Accesses
  34 6. Bus now has real timing
  35 7. Single config file for all SpecCPU2000 benchmarks
  36 8. Several other minor bug fixes and enhancements
  37
  38 Aug. 25, 2006: m5_2.0_beta patch 1
  39 --------------------
  40 Handful of minor bug fixes for m5_2.0_beta,
  41 along with a few new regression tests.
  42
  43 Aug. 15, 2006: m5_2.0_beta
  44 --------------------
  45 Major update to M5 including:
  46 - New CPU model
  47 - New memory system
  48 - More extensive python integration
  49 - Preliminary syscall emulation support for MIPS and SPARC
  50 This is a *beta* release, meaning that some features are not complete,
  51 and some features from M5 1.X aren't currently supported (e.g., MP
  52 coherence).  We are working to address these limitations and hope to
  53 have a complete 2.0 release soon.
  54
  55 Oct. 8, 2005: m5_1.1
  56 --------------------
  57 Update release for IOSCA workshop mini-tutorial.  New features include:
  58 - Preliminary FreeBSD support
  59 - Integration of regression tests into scons build framework
  60 - Several bug fixes and better compatibility for Cygwin hosts
  61 - Major cleanup of Alpha system code (console, PAL, etc.) to make
  62   it easier for others to build/modify
  63 - Fixes to enable compilation under g++ 4.0
  64 - Numerous minor bug fixes
  65
  66 June 10, 2005: m5_1.0_web
  67 -------------------------
  68 The 1.0 release posted on Sourceforge after the ISCA tutorial contains
  69 just a few very minor fixes relative to the CD.
  70
  71 June 5, 2005: m5_1.0_tutorial
  72 -----------------------------
  73 First non-beta release.  This release was on the CD distributed at the
  74 ISCA tutorial.  Major enhancements relative to beta releases include
  75 Linux support and Python-based configuration language.
  76
  77 June 17, 2004: m5_1.0_beta2
  78 ---------------------------
  79 Stealth-mode beta bug-fix update, not widely advertised.
  80
  81 Oct. 17, 2003: m5_1.0_beta1
  82 ---------------------------
  83 Early beta release.