-Since you're reading this file, presumably you've managed to untar the
-distribution. The archive you've unpacked has three subdirectories:
- - m5: the simulator itself
- - m5-test: regression tests and scripts to run them
- - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5
- (currently ply and libelf)
-
-M5 is a capable, full-system simulator that current supports both Linux
-2.4/2.6 and the proprietary Compaq/HP Tru64 version of Unix. We are able
-to distribute Linux 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.
-
-WHAT'S NEEDED
--------------
--GCC(3.X)
--Python(2.2.2+)
-
-WHAT'S RECOMMENDED
-------------------
--MySQL (for statistics complex statistics storage/retrieval)
--Python-MysqlDB (for statistics analysis)
-
-GETTING STARTED
----------------
-
-The following steps will build and test the simulator. The variable
-"$top" refers to the top directory where you've unpacked the files,
-i.e., the one containing the m5, m5-test, and ext directories.
-
-There are three different build targets and three optimizations in each level:
-Target:
--------
-ALPHA - Syscall emulation simulation
-KERNEL - Linux full system simulation
-KERNEL_TLASER - Tru64 Unix full system simulation
-
-Optimization:
--------------
-m5.debug - debug version of the code with tracing and without optimization
-m5.opt - optimized version of code with tracing
-m5.fast - optimized version of the code without tracing and asserts
-
-cd $top/m5/build
-scons TARGET/OPTLEVL # e.g. KERNEL/m5.opt, use -j N if you have a MP system
-cd $top/m5-test
-./do-tests.pl -B ALPHA # test what you just built
-./do-tests.pl -B KERNEL # test what you just built
-# wait for tests to run...
-# should end with "finished do-tests successfully!"
+The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
+ - m5:
+ - src: source code of the m5 simulator
+ - tests: regression tests
+ - ext: less-common external packages needed to build m5
+
+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.tar.bz2. This file
+can he downloaded separately.
+
+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-users@m5sim.org