> 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? > > Michael LeBeane wrote: > 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.
Great. Thanks for the clarification. I'd suggest mentioning this in the description. - Andreas ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3585/#review8568 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Aug. 4, 2016, 4:45 p.m., Michael LeBeane wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3585/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Aug. 4, 2016, 4:45 p.m.) > > > Review request for Default. > > > Repository: gem5 > > > Description > ------- > > Changeset 11550:83b09c2a82ac > --------------------------- > 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. > > > Diffs > ----- > > src/python/swig/pyobject.cc 91f58918a76abf1a1dedcaa70a9b95789da7b88c > > Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3585/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > > Thanks, > > Michael LeBeane > > _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
