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Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:02:36 +0200
From: Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@lifl.fr>
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: 'virtual HW' into kernel (SystemC)
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09/07/2005 01:40 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote/a écrit:
> Màrius Montón wrote:
> 
:
>> At this point, we plan to develop a pci device driver to act as a bridge
>> between kernel PCI subsystem and SystemC simulator (in user space).
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> If you can boot Linux on the simulated platform, then you can easily 
> develop a Linux driver long before real HW is available.

No, this approach is not feasible because it would be require to 
describe the entire computer in SystemC: it's extremly complex to do and 
the simulation will be very slow.

 From what I understand Màrius tries to only simulate one component 
(like a PCI card). As suggested Muli, a plugin to something like quemu 
sounds like a good idea?

Eric

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