Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Oct 2008 04:35:22 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] Block device for the ISS simulator |
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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.
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