Currently the metag_da console channel is write only, it doesn't get
polled for incoming data. This is for performance & latency reasons as
polling blocks the processor for a significant amount of time waiting
for the JTAG probe to respond to the request and restart the thread.
This means that the console channel cannot be used for a login prompt,
so ttyDA2 is usually used instead.
In a virtual environment with a virtual DA such as QEMU however the
polling is much cheaper as the request can be handled immediately. It is
useful to be able to enable polling in such an environment in order to
get both the kernel log and a usable login prompt on the same DA
channel.
Add a console_poll module parameter which allows polling to be enabled
for the console channel. It defaults to off as that is the current
behaviour for good reason on real hardware.
It can be enabled by appending metag_da.console_poll to the kernel
command line.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use this new function to make code more comprehensible, since we are
reinitialzing the completion, not initializing.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: linux-next resyncs]
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> (personally at LCE13)
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Getting the tty kref in dashtty_timer() is no longer necessary since it
isn't needed in fetch_data() any longer (due to changes which make the
tty flip functions refer to tty_ports instead of tty_structs), so just
pass around a channel number instead.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a TTY driver for communicating over a Meta DA (Debug Adapter)
channel using the bios channel SWITCH operation.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
