[RFC/PATCH] Block device for the ISS simulator

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:08:42AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The ISS simulator is a simple powerpc simulator used among other things
> for hardware bringup. It implements a simple memory mapped block device
> interface.
> 
> This is a simple block driver that attaches to it. Note that the choice
> of a major device number is fishy, though because it's a simulator and
> not real hardware, it's not necessarily a big deal.

Please don't put in more block devices for every bloody simulator in the
world.  Just emulated some simpler enough existing hardware.