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