Major changes to how SimObjects are created and initialized. Almost all

creation and initialization now happens in python.  Parameter objects
are generated and initialized by python.  The .ini file is now solely for
debugging purposes and is not used in construction of the objects in any
way.

--HG--
extra : convert_revision : 7e722873e417cb3d696f2e34c35ff488b7bff4ed

src/sim/sim_object.cc

@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
 #include "sim/host.hh"
 #include "sim/sim_object.hh"
 #include "sim/stats.hh"
-#include "sim/param.hh"
 
 using namespace std;
 
@@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ SimObject::SimObjectList SimObject::simObjectList;
 //
 // SimObject constructor: used to maintain static simObjectList
 //
-SimObject::SimObject(Params *p)
+SimObject::SimObject(const Params *p)
     : _params(p)
 {
 #ifdef DEBUG
@@ -70,13 +69,18 @@ SimObject::SimObject(Params *p)
     state = Running;
 }
 
-//
-// SimObject constructor: used to maintain static simObjectList
-//
-SimObject::SimObject(const string &_name)
-    : _params(new Params)
+SimObjectParams *
+makeParams(const string &name)
+{
+    SimObjectParams *params = new SimObjectParams;
+    params->name = name;
+
+    return params;
+}
+
+SimObject::SimObject(const string &_name)
+    : _params(makeParams(_name))
 {
-    _params->name = _name;
 #ifdef DEBUG
     doDebugBreak = false;
 #endif
@@ -272,5 +276,3 @@ SimObject::takeOverFrom(BaseCPU *cpu)
 {
     panic("Unimplemented!");
 }
-
-DEFINE_SIM_OBJECT_CLASS_NAME("SimObject", SimObject)