Re: 'virtual HW' into kernel (SystemC)

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda
Date: Wed Sep 07 2005 - 06:55:40 EST


On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:40:41AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> No need for a set of tools. As long as your SystemC simulator simulates
> an entire platform -- CPU, DRAM, etc. -- then you can boot Linux on the
> simulated platform.

Even if it doesn't, hooking SystemC into something that does boot
Linux such as qemu strikes me as a much easier approach than modifying
a kernel running on bare metal to also use "virtual" hardware.

Cheers,
Muli
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/

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