`set_sysfile_values` now accepts a `^` symbol prefixed to the
file path to indicated that the value should be written as binary data.
To accommodate this an extra `binary` flag has been added to the `set_sysfile_value`and `get_sysfile_value` methods to write and retrieve the binary data respectively.
This changeset adds the ability to sleep on the device via a
device.sleep() method. This invokes sleep on the target device. This
is useful for situations where the passage of time on the target
device does not match that of the host, e.g., gem5.
This changeset also updates a number of workloads to use this new
sleep method.
- Device subclasses should provide their own implementation.
Default behaviour is to raise a `NotImplementedError`
- Workload subclasses can set `requires_network` to `True` and
network connectivity check will be performed during `setup()`
Dynamic modules may be loaded automatically on device initialization if
the device supports them. Dynamic modules implent probe() method to
determine whether they are supported by a particular deviced.
devcpufreq and cpuidle have been converted into dynamic modules
- standardisded on a single context argument
- removed Device.init() no longer necessary as initilize now
automatically gets propagated up the hierarchy. Renamed the existing
use of it to "initilize".
- related pylint cleanup.
- added caseless_string type. This behaves exactly like a string, except
this ignores case in comparisons. It does, however, preserve case. E.g.
>>> s = caseless_string('Test')
>>> s == 'test'
True
>>> print s
Test
- added list_of type generating function. This allows to dynamically
generate type-safe list types based on an existing type. E.g.
>>> list_of_bool = list_of(bool)
>>> list_of_bool(['foo', 0, 1, '', True])
[True, False, True, False, True]
- Update core_names Device Parameter to be of type caseless_string
