linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] Block device for the ISS simulator

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Message-ID: <20081003083522.GB25683@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 3 Oct 2008 04:35:22 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Block device for the ISS simulator

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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