> On Aug. 4, 2016, 4:48 p.m., Andreas Hansson wrote:
> > How on earth would you use an Ethernet device without an OS and a driver 
> > stack?

A lot of the Ethernet networking code is fairly generic and can be used to 
build non-ethernet device models.  Some of these device models (high 
performance RDMA NICs for example) don't need a complex driver stack and can 
use a simple EmulatedDriver in SE mode.

In the long run, I think it would help to rename a lot of these "Ether" objects 
to "Net" objects if they don't have ethernet-specific semantics in them.


- Michael


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On Aug. 4, 2016, 4:45 p.m., Michael LeBeane wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 4, 2016, 4:45 p.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Repository: gem5
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> Description
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> Changeset 11550:83b09c2a82ac
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> misc: Remove FullSystem check for networking components
> Ethernet devices are currently only hooked up if running in FS mode.
> This patch enables etherent interface to properly connect regardless of
> whether the simulation is in FS or SE mode.
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> Diffs
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>   src/python/swig/pyobject.cc 91f58918a76abf1a1dedcaa70a9b95789da7b88c 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3585/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Michael LeBeane
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