[patch 0/8] systemsim and hvc_console patches

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 13:52, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

(adding more people to Cc:)

Can someone from the systemsim team please comment on this?
the thread leading here is archived at
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc64-dev/2006-January/thread.html#7600

	Arnd <><