-The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
- - m5: the simulator itself
- - m5-test: regression tests
- - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5
- - alpha-system: source for Alpha console and PALcode
-
-To run full-system simulations, you will need compiled console,
-PALcode, and kernel binaries and one or more disk images. These files
-are collected in a separate archive, m5_system_1.1.tar.bz2. This file
-is included on the CD release, or you can download it separately from
-Sourceforge.
-
-M5 supports Linux 2.4/2.6, FreeBSD, and the proprietary Compaq/HP
-Tru64 version of Unix. We are able to distribute Linux and FreeBSD
-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.
-
-The CD release includes a few extra goodies, such as a tar file
-containing doxygen-generated HTML documentation (html-docs.tar.gz), a
-set of Linux source patches (linux_m5-2.6.8.1.diff), and the scons
-program needed to build M5. If you do not have the CD, the same HTML
-documentation is available online at http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/docs,
-the Linux source patches are available at
-http://m5.eecs.umich.edu/dist/linux_m5-2.6.8.1.diff, and the scons
-program is available from http://www.scons.org.
-
-WHAT'S NEEDED
--------------
-- GCC version 3.3 or newer
-- Python 2.3 or newer
-- SCons 0.96.1 or newer (see http://www.scons.org)
-
-WHAT'S RECOMMENDED
-------------------
-- MySQL (for statistics complex statistics storage/retrieval)
-- Python-MysqlDB (for statistics analysis)
-
-GETTING STARTED
----------------
+To build gem5, you will need the following software: g++ or clang,
+Python (gem5 links in the Python interpreter), SCons, SWIG, zlib, m4,
+and lastly protobuf if you want trace capture and playback
+support. Please see http://www.gem5.org/Dependencies for more details
+concerning the minimum versions of the aforementioned tools.