This class used to drive from SimObject so that it could be derived
from to get both the interface and SimObject while still using single
inheritance.
With this change, EtherObject is now just an interface class with only
one pure virtual function which can be inherited alongside SimObject.
This makes it more flexible so that it can be used in places where you
might want a different inheritance hierarchy, for instance to inherit
from MemObject.
Change-Id: I0f07664d104eed012cf4ce6e30c416ada19505a7
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/public/gem5/+/17028
Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
The only part of these devices which are incompatible with other ISAs,
with the possible exception of endianness transformation, is that
the dist_iface implementation refers to ThreadContext methods and
that class is heavily tied to the guest ISA. Only those few lines are
excluded in a NULL_ISA build.
Change-Id: Ic6d643fdbb792d0a996a37d75e027c5ce0ecd460
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/c/13469
Reviewed-by: Gabor Dozsa <gabor.dozsa@arm.com>
Maintainer: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Distributed gem5 (abbreviated dist-gem5) is the result of the
convergence effort between multi-gem5 and pd-gem5 (from Univ. of
Wisconsin). It relies on the base multi-gem5 infrastructure for packet
forwarding, synchronisation and checkpointing but combines those with
the elaborated network switch model from pd-gem5.
--HG--
rename : src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.cc => src/dev/net/dist_etherlink.cc
rename : src/dev/net/multi_etherlink.hh => src/dev/net/dist_etherlink.hh
rename : src/dev/net/multi_iface.cc => src/dev/net/dist_iface.cc
rename : src/dev/net/multi_iface.hh => src/dev/net/dist_iface.hh
rename : src/dev/net/multi_packet.hh => src/dev/net/dist_packet.hh
