Changeset 10873:c0ac6410d7bc

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misc: Coupling gem5 with SystemC TLM2.0

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.