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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Christian Borntraeger
91fcad19d0 virtio_console: use virtqueue notification for hvc_console
This patch exploits the new notifier callbacks of the hvc_console. We can
use the virtio callbacks instead of the polling code.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-25 12:06:06 +10:00
Rusty Russell
a586d4f601 virtio: simplify config mechanism.
Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
seems overkill.  We now simply define a structure which represents the
layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
at the end.

The main driver-visible changes:
1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:49:57 +11:00
Randy Dunlap
139b82984a virtio/virtcons: fix section mismatch warning
Make virtcons_probe() __devinit.
Fixes this section warning:

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x14c10b): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:hvc_alloc (between 'virtcons_probe' and 'ac_register_board')

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05 15:12:32 -08:00
Rusty Russell
31610434bc Virtio console driver
This is an hvc-based virtio console driver.  It's suboptimal becuase
hvc expects to have raw access to interrupts and virtio doesn't assume
that, so it currently polls.

There are two solutions: expose hvc's "kick" interface, or wean off hvc.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-10-23 15:49:55 +10:00