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Message-Id: <1223026180.12264.174.camel@pasglop> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:29:40 +1000 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.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, 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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