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>
Currently, all the network devices create a 16K buffer for the 'data' field
in EthPacketData, and use 'length' to keep track of the size of the packet
in the buffer. This patch introduces the 'simLength' parameter to
EthPacketData, which is used to hold the effective length of the packet used
for all timing calulations in the simulator. Serialization is performed using
only the useful data in the packet ('length') and not necessarily the entire
original buffer.
