dev: Refactor UART->Terminal interface

The UART models currently assume that they are always wired to a
terminal. While true at the moment, this isn't necessarily a valid
assumption. This change introduces the SerialDevice class that defines
the interface for serial devices. Currently, Terminal is the only
class that implements this interface.

Change-Id: I74fefafbbaf5ac1ec0d4ec0b5a0f4b246fdad305
Signed-off-by: Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Curtis Dunham <curtis.dunham@arm.com>
Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/4289
Reviewed-by: Gabe Black <gabeblack@google.com>

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/dev/Serial.py b/src/dev/Serial.py
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+# Copyright (c) 2014, 2017 ARM Limited
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+#
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+#
+# Authors: Andreas Sandberg
+
+from m5.params import *
+from m5.SimObject import SimObject
+
+class SerialDevice(SimObject):
+    type = 'SerialDevice'
+    abstract = True
+    cxx_header = "dev/serial.hh"