RELEASE_NOTES

   1 Outstanding issues for 2.0 release:
   2 --------------------
   3 1. Fix multi-level coherence/dma issues
   4 2. Fix O3 CPU bug in SE 40.perlbmk fails
   5 3. Fix O3 processing nacks/coherence messages
   6 4. Better statistics for the caches.
   7 5. Clean up more SimObject parameter stuff
   8 6. Checkpoint/switchover testing
   9 7. FS mode doesn't work under Cygwin
  10 8. memtest regression crashes under Cygwin
  11 9. Make repository public
  12 10. Testing
  13 11. Validation
  14 12. Testing
  15
  16 May 16, 2007: m5_2.0_beta3
  17 --------------------
  18 New Features
  19 1. Some support for SPARC full-system simulation
  20 2. Reworking of trace facitities (parameter names changed, variadic macros
  21    removed)
  22 3. Scons script cleanups
  23 4. Some support for compiling with Intel CC
  24
  25 Bug fixes since beta 2:
  26 1. Many SPARC linux syscall emulation support fixes
  27 2. Multiprocessor linux boot using the detailed O3 CPU module
  28 3. Workaround for DMA bug (final solution to be released with 2.0f)
  29 4. Simulator performance and memory leak fixes
  30 5. Fixed issue where console could stop printing in ALPHA_FS
  31 6. Fix issues with remote debugging
  32 7. Several compile fixes, including gcc 4.1
  33 8. Many other minor fixes and enhancements
  34
  35 Nov. 28, 2006: m5_2.0_beta2
  36 --------------------
  37 Bug fixes since beta 1:
  38 1. Many cache issues resolved
  39 2. Uni-coherence fixes in full-system
  40 3. LL/SC Support
  41 4. Draining/Switchover
  42 5. Functional Accesses
  43 6. Bus now has real timing
  44 7. Single config file for all SpecCPU2000 benchmarks
  45 8. Several other minor bug fixes and enhancements
  46
  47 Aug. 25, 2006: m5_2.0_beta patch 1
  48 --------------------
  49 Handful of minor bug fixes for m5_2.0_beta,
  50 along with a few new regression tests.
  51
  52 Aug. 15, 2006: m5_2.0_beta
  53 --------------------
  54 Major update to M5 including:
  55 - New CPU model
  56 - New memory system
  57 - More extensive python integration
  58 - Preliminary syscall emulation support for MIPS and SPARC
  59 This is a *beta* release, meaning that some features are not complete,
  60 and some features from M5 1.X aren't currently supported (e.g., MP
  61 coherence).  We are working to address these limitations and hope to
  62 have a complete 2.0 release soon.
  63
  64 Oct. 8, 2005: m5_1.1
  65 --------------------
  66 Update release for IOSCA workshop mini-tutorial.  New features include:
  67 - Preliminary FreeBSD support
  68 - Integration of regression tests into scons build framework
  69 - Several bug fixes and better compatibility for Cygwin hosts
  70 - Major cleanup of Alpha system code (console, PAL, etc.) to make
  71   it easier for others to build/modify
  72 - Fixes to enable compilation under g++ 4.0
  73 - Numerous minor bug fixes
  74
  75 June 10, 2005: m5_1.0_web
  76 -------------------------
  77 The 1.0 release posted on Sourceforge after the ISCA tutorial contains
  78 just a few very minor fixes relative to the CD.
  79
  80 June 5, 2005: m5_1.0_tutorial
  81 -----------------------------
  82 First non-beta release.  This release was on the CD distributed at the
  83 ISCA tutorial.  Major enhancements relative to beta releases include
  84 Linux support and Python-based configuration language.
  85
  86 June 17, 2004: m5_1.0_beta2
  87 ---------------------------
  88 Stealth-mode beta bug-fix update, not widely advertised.
  89
  90 Oct. 17, 2003: m5_1.0_beta1
  91 ---------------------------
  92 Early beta release.