sim: Adding thermal model support

This patch adds basic thermal support to gem5. It models energy dissipation
through a circuital equivalent, which allows us to use RC networks.
This lays down the basic infrastructure to do so, but it does not "work" due
to the lack of power models. For now some hardcoded number is used as a PoC.
The solver is embedded in the patch.

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+/*
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+ * Authors: David Guillen Fandos
+ */
+
+#ifndef __SIM_THERMAL_ENTITY_HH__
+#define __SIM_THERMAL_ENTITY_HH__
+
+#include "sim/linear_solver.hh"
+
+class ThermalNode;
+
+/**
+ * An abstract class that represents any thermal entity which is used
+ * in the circuital thermal equivalent model. It is necessary for
+ * ThermalModel to be able to solve the circuit.
+ */
+class ThermalEntity
+{
+  public:
+    // Get the equation given a node and a step in seconds (assuming N nodes)
+    virtual LinearEquation getEquation(ThermalNode *tn, unsigned n,
+                                       double step) const = 0;
+};
+
+
+#endif