Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751188AbVIGLzV (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:55:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932124AbVIGLzV (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:55:21 -0400 Received: from mx1.actcom.co.il ([192.114.47.64]:15574 "EHLO smtp1.actcom.co.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751188AbVIGLzV (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:55:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 14:54:41 +0300 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda To: Jeff Garzik Cc: M?rius Mont?n , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 'virtual HW' into kernel (SystemC) Message-ID: <20050907115441.GC30242@granada.merseine.nu> References: <431EC16B.2040604@uab.es> <431ED1B9.7040407@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <431ED1B9.7040407@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 768 Lines: 21 On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:40:41AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > No need for a set of tools. As long as your SystemC simulator simulates > an entire platform -- CPU, DRAM, etc. -- then you can boot Linux on the > simulated platform. Even if it doesn't, hooking SystemC into something that does boot Linux such as qemu strikes me as a much easier approach than modifying a kernel running on bare metal to also use "virtual" hardware. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/