The current TLM bridge only provides a Slave Port that allows the gem5
world to send request to the SystemC world. This patch series refractors
and cleans up the existing code, and adds a Master Port that allows the
SystemC world to send requests to the gem5 world.
This patch:
* Implement 'pipe through' for gem5 Packets (see explanation below)
Basically, this patch ensures that all transactions that originated in the
gem5 world are converted back to the original packet when entering the gem5
world. So far, this only worked for packets that are responded to by a
SyctemC component (e.g. when a gem5 CPU sends a request to a SystemC
memory). By implementing the 'pipe through' this patch ensures, that
packets that are responded to by a gem5 component (e.g. when a gem5 CPU
sends a request to a gem5 memory via a SystemC interconnect) are handled
properly.
Reviewed at http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3796/
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
The current TLM bridge only provides a Slave Port that allows the gem5
world to send request to the SystemC world. This patch series refractors
and cleans up the existing code, and adds a Master Port that allows the
SystemC world to send requests to the gem5 world.
This patch:
* Restructure the existing sources in preparation of the addition of the
* new
Master Port.
* Refractor names to allow for distinction of the slave and master port.
* Replace the Makefile by a SConstruct.
Testing Done: The examples provided in util/tlm (now
util/tlm/examples/slave_port) still compile and run error free.
Reviewed at http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3527/
Signed-off-by: Jason Lowe-Power <jason@lowepower.com>
Transaction Level Modeling (TLM2.0) is widely used in industry for creating
virtual platforms (IEEE 1666 SystemC). This patch contains a standard compliant
implementation of an external gem5 port, that enables the usage of gem5 as a
TLM initiator component in SystemC based virtual platforms. Both TLM coding
paradigms loosely timed (b_transport) and aproximately timed (nb_transport) are
supported.
Compared to the original patch a TLM memory manager was added. Furthermore, the
transaction object was removed and for each TLM payload a PacketPointer that
points to the original gem5 packet is added as an TLM extension. For event
handling single events are now created.
Committed by: Nilay Vaish <nilay@cs.wisc.edu>
