Review Board 2.0.15


MEM: Add the system port as a central access point

Review Request #942 - Created Dec. 18, 2011 and submitted - Latest diff uploaded

Information
Andreas Hansson
gem5
default
Reviewers
Default
MEM: Add the system port as a central access point

The system port is used as a globally reachable access point to the
memory subsystem. The benefit of using an actual port is that the
usual infrastructure is used to resolve any access and thus makes the
overall system able to handle distributed memories in any
configuration, and also makes the accesses agnostic to the address
map. This patch only introduces the port and does not actually use it
for anything.
util/regress all passing (disregarding t1000 and eio)