Beehive V6a

This is the preliminary V6 version from August 2010.

The changes in this version include the following. See the documentation for details.

• hardware transactional memory, and an API for it;
• a low-level debugger, accessible from telnet;
• documentation for transactional memory and for libmc;
• better separation of cache lines for independent programs;
• bug fixes ☺.

Note that the installation directory for Bgcc1.exe has changed, and needs to be added to your search path.

The following files are wholly owned by Microsoft. You may use them only if you have signed our license (which would look very much like the one for MIT). Access or use by anyone else is not permitted.

• Documentation: hardware
• Documentation: transactional memory
• Documentation: tool chain
• Documentation: multi-core library and debugger (libmc)
• Hardware design: source and binary
• MSR-owned tools: source and binary
• Multi-core library and sample programs: source and binary

The contents of the following files are licensed under GPL or LGPL:

• Beehive-gcc: source and binary

Older versions of this distribution are still here: v2 (11/2009), v3 (12/2009), and v5 (1/2010).