Ruby: Add new object called WireBuffer to mimic a Wire.

This is a substitute for MessageBuffers between controllers where you don't
want messages to actually go through the Network, because requests/responses can
always get reordered wrt to one another (even if you turn off Randomization and turn on Ordered)
because you are, after all, going through a network with contention. For systems where you model
multiple controllers that are very tightly coupled and do not actually go through a network,
it is a pain to have to write a coherence protocol to account for mixed up request/response orderings
despite the fact that it's completely unrealistic.  This is *not* meant as a substitute for real
MessageBuffers when messages do in fact go over a network.

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diff --git a/src/mem/ruby/system/WireBuffer.py b/src/mem/ruby/system/WireBuffer.py
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+# Copyright (c) 2010 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
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+# OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+#
+# Author: Lisa Hsu
+
+from m5.params import *
+from m5.SimObject import SimObject
+#from Controller import RubyController
+
+class RubyWireBuffer(SimObject):
+    type = 'RubyWireBuffer'
+    cxx_class = 'WireBuffer'