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+++ b/README
@@ -1,13 +1,25 @@
-This is release 2.0 of the M5 simulator.
+This is release 2.0_beta (patch 1) of the M5 simulator.
 
-For information about building the simulator and getting started please refer
-to: http://www.m5sim.org/
+For detailed information about building the simulator and getting
+started please refer to http://www.m5sim.org.
 
-Specific Pages of Interest are:
+Specific pages of interest are:
 http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_M5
 http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Running_M5
 
-If you have questions, please send mail to m5sim-users@lists.sourceforge.net.
+Short version:
+
+1. If you don't have SCons version 0.96.91 or newer, get it from
+http://wwww.scons.org.
+
+2. If you don't have SWIG version 1.3.28 or newer, get it from
+http://wwww.swig.org.
+
+3. In this directory, type 'scons build/ALPHA_SE/tests/debug/quick'.  This
+will build the debug version of the m5 binary (m5.debug) for the Alpha
+syscall emulation target, and run the quick regression tests on it.
+
+If you have questions, please send mail to m5-users@m5sim.org
 
 WHAT'S INCLUDED (AND NOT)
 -------------------------
@@ -21,8 +33,8 @@ The basic source release includes these subdirectories:
 
 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_2.0.tar.bz2.  This file
-can he downloaded separately from Sourceforge.
+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