On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 04:35 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:08:42AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > The ISS simulator is a simple powerpc simulator used among other things > > for hardware bringup. It implements a simple memory mapped block device > > interface. > > > > This is a simple block driver that attaches to it. Note that the choice > > of a major device number is fishy, though because it's a simulator and > > not real hardware, it's not necessarily a big deal. > > Please don't put in more block devices for every bloody simulator in the > world. Just emulated some simpler enough existing hardware.
I'm not sure I want it merged, but having it on the list "for the record" is useful and it might be useful to get comments in case it's terminally busted :-) I'm trying to get ISS to implement an IDE interface in fact. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev