Although you could attach the disk to the cpu side of the l1. That  
might work. You'll still need to attach the config port to the I/O bus  
so that PCI configuration happens normally.

Ali

On Nov 20, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Steve Reinhardt wrote:

> Actually that's not true... you need an io cache to make sure block
> writes are coherent regardless of where the device is attached.  The
> device by itself doesn't know how to make coherent accesses.
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:51 PM, nathan binkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
> wrote:
>> Sorry for the late response, but there really isn't another disk
>> model.  You should in theory be able to hang the disk device off
>> whatever bus memory hangs off of.  You only need an io cache if you
>> want a separate IO bus.
>>
>> Nate
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Rick Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
>> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have mesh + directory coherence (based on Jiayuan's patches)  
>>> running
>>> the beginning of a script  in full system and see output coming  
>>> from the
>>> terminal. However, I am getting an assertion in the ide_disk.cc a  
>>> little
>>> later:
>>>
>>> Assertion failed: (cmdBytesLeft == 0), function dmaWriteDone, file
>>> /Users/rickstrong/build/m5powerfs/build/ALPHA_FS/dev/ide_disk.cc,  
>>> line 497.
>>>
>>> As I am running for a deadline, I don't really care about the  
>>> accuracy
>>> of the disk model. Is there a simpler disk that I could use that  
>>> might
>>> get me around the complexity of figuring how dma is interacting  
>>> with the
>>> disk?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> -Rick
>>>
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