[patch 0/8] systemsim and hvc_console patches

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:10:13PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I think systemsim does have accurate models for a number of IDE and
> network devices, but I would rather not have to use them because they will
> run at a horribly slow speed, because they try to model the performance
> of the devices relative to the CPU cycles.
> 
> For the cell simulator in particular, I think there is no model of the
> spider-pic interrupt controller, which means that systemsim can not use
> the models for the devices it uses on other platforms. Eric, is this still
> correct?

So please add support for vioscsi and vioeth.  IBM already supports
these virtual storage and network devices and we don't need to add yet
more.  There's already more than enough of these virtual or simulated
hardware drivers in the tree.