The char device will be used as an interface by applications on the
guest to communicate with apps on the host.
The devices created are placed in /dev/vportNpn where N is the
virtio-console device number and n is the port number for that device.
One dynamic major device number is allocated for each device and minor
numbers are allocated for the ports contained within that device.
The file operation for the char devs will be added in the following
commits.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Hi Stephen,
next-20090925 randconfig build breaks on hvcs driver on powerpc,
with HVC_CONSOLE=n.
ERROR: ".hvc_put_chars" [drivers/char/hvcs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: ".hvc_get_chars" [drivers/char/hvcs.ko] undefined!
adding the dependency of HVC_CONSOLE helped
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The ESP driver has been marked broken for years. It's an old ISA device
that clearly nobody cares about any more. Remove it
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There isn't much else I can do with these. I can find no hardware for any
of them and no users. The code is broken.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Blackfin platforms do not support the hardware which this driver drives.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
.ko is normally not included in Kconfig help, make it consistent.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The Blackfin JTAG interface has a 4 byte generic data field (EMUDAT). With
a little creative thinking, we can turn this into a TTY device.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/nvram.c uses rtc_lock, that (on ARM) is only defined if
RTC_DRV_CMOS is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
iSeries dependent drivers fail to build, when CONFIG_VIOPATH is disabled.
Fix the problem by making those drivers select it.
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Blackfin platforms do not support the hardware which this driver drives.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (144 commits)
powerpc/44x: Support 16K/64K base page sizes on 44x
powerpc: Force memory size to be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
powerpc/32: Wire up the trampoline code for kdump
powerpc/32: Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at 32M
powerpc/32: Allow __ioremap on RAM addresses for kdump kernel
powerpc/32: Setup OF properties for kdump
powerpc/32/kdump: Implement crash_setup_regs() using ppc_save_regs()
powerpc: Prepare xmon_save_regs for use with kdump
powerpc: Remove default kexec/crash_kernel ops assignments
powerpc: Make default kexec/crash_kernel ops implicit
powerpc: Setup OF properties for ppc32 kexec
powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug
powerpc: Fix KVM build on ppc440
powerpc/cell: add QPACE as a separate Cell platform
powerpc/cell: fix build breakage with CONFIG_SPUFS disabled
powerpc/mpc5200: fix error paths in PSC UART probe function
powerpc/mpc5200: add rts/cts handling in PSC UART driver
powerpc/mpc5200: Make PSC UART driver update serial errors counters
powerpc/mpc5200: Remove obsolete code from mpc5200 MDIO driver
powerpc/mpc5200: Add MDMA/UDMA support to MPC5200 ATA driver
...
Fix trivial conflict in drivers/char/Makefile as per Paul's directions
This patch introduces a new hypervisor console (HVC) back-end that provides
terminal access over the z/VM inter-user communication vehicle (IUCV).
The z/VM IUCV communication is independent of the regular tcp/ip network
and allows access even if there is no network connection between two
z/VM guest virtual machines.
The z/VM IUCV hypervisor console back-end helps the user to access a
z/VM guest virtual machine that lacks of network connectivity; and thus,
provides a "full-screen" terminal alternative to 3215/3270 terminal sessions.
Use the hvc_iucv=[0..8] kernel boot parameter to specify the number of
HVC terminals using a z/VM IUCV back-end.
A recent version of the s390-tools package is required to establish a
terminal connection to a z/VM IUCV hypervisor console back-end.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This adds a new backend for the hvc console based on the low-level
udbg callbacks. This effectively implements a working runtime console
in terms of the simple udbg primitives. This is kind of a hack -
since udbg isn't something you really want to be using routinely - but
it's really useful during bringup.
This can be used to quickly implement a userspace-usable console while
you're working on a proper driver for whatever console I/O device the
hardware has. Or, it can be used to avoid writing a full blown
tty/console driver entirely for quick-and-dirty I/O hardware that will
later be replaced by something else.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it.
Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory.
Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/.
Update all relevant 00-INDEX files.
Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
It was only used by this one SGI platform which recently was converted to
RTC_LIB and with RTC_LIB enabled the legacy drivers are no more selectable.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
It was only used by two SGI platforms which recently were converted to
RTC_LIB and with RTC_LIB enabled the legacy drivers are no more selectable.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
HPET_RTC_IRQ is no longer needed; HPET_EMULATE_RTC suffices and is more
correct. (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11111)
Note that when using the legacy RTC driver, platforms don't really do a
dynamic switch between HPET and non-HPET modes based on whether HPET
hardware actually exists ... only rtc-cmos (using the new RTC framework)
currently switches that way.
So this reflects bitrot in that legacy code, for x86/ia64: kernels with
HPET support configured (e.g. for a clocksource) can't get IRQs from the
legacy RTC driver unless they really have HPET hardware. (The obvious
workaround is to not use the legacy RTC driver on those platforms when you
configure HPET ... unless you know the target really has a HPET.)
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use tty_port_init and krefs in the stallion drivers to protect us from devices
going away underneath us. As with the other drives some rearranging is done to
pass the tty structure down properly on the user side.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This driver was declared obsolete over 2 years ago, the alternative
console driver for legacy iSeries (hvc_iseries) was made the default
over 1 year ago and this driver has been build broken for over 3
months, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I also added a small Kconfig change that allows the user to specify the
virtio console in menuconfig.
(Fixes to export symbols from Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>)
(Fixes for CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y vs CONFIG_VIRTIO=m from Christian himself)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
This patch tries to change hvc_console to not use request_irq/free_irq if
the backend does not use irqs. This allows virtio_console to use hvc_console
without having a linker reference to request_irq/free_irq.
In addition, together with patch 2/3 it improves the performance for virtio
console input. (an earlier version of this patch was tested by Yajin on lguest)
The irq specific code is moved to hvc_irq.c and selected by the drivers that
use irqs (System p, System i, XEN).
I replaced "int irq" with the opaque "int data". The request_irq and
free_irq calls are replaced with notifier_add and notifier_del. I have also
changed the code a bit to call the notifier_add and notifier_del inside the
spinlock area as the callbacks are found via hp->ops.
Changes since last version:
o remove ifdef
o reintroduce "irq_requested" as "notified"
o cleanups, sparse..
I did not move the timer based polling into a separate polling scheme. I
played with several variants, but it seems we need to sleep/schedule in
a thread even for irq based consoles, as there are throttleing and buffer
size constraints.
I also kept hvc_struct defined in hvc_console.h so that hvc_irq.c can access
the irq_requested element.
Feedback is appreciated. virtio_console is currently the only available console
for kvm on s390. I plan to push this change as soon as all affected parties
agree on it. I would love to get test results from System p, Xen etc.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Use the hardware break support on the specialix driver
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert the driver to use the added hardware break support
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some hardware needs to do break handling itself and may have partial
support only. Make break_ctl return an error code. Add a tty driver flag
so you can indicate driver hardware side break support.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nobody seems to use these drivers anyway so if they want them they can
fix them up. I don't have the needed info to add break_ctl support to them.
Send patches if you don't like it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Go through the inlines and other oddments that are iffy. Remove various bits
of dead code and bogus debug. Turn the crtsdts compile time option into a
runtime switch.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adds a character driver for BSR support on IBM POWER systems including
Power5 and Power6. The BSR is an optional processor facility not currently
implemented by any other processors. It's primary purpose is fast large SMP
synchronization. More details on the BSR are in comments to the code which
follows. This patch adds BSR driver to pseries_defconfig.
Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
More Kconfig tweaks related to the legacy PC RTC code:
- Describe the legacy PC RTC driver as such ... it's never quite
been clear that this driver is for PC RTCs, and now it's fair
to call this the "legacy" driver.
- Force it to understand about HPET stealing its IRQs ... kernel
code does this always when HPET is in use, there should be no
option for users to goof up the config.
This seems to fix kernel bugzilla #10729.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As commit 6089093e58 ("ip2: fix crashes on
load/unload") fixed the ip2 crashes on load/unload by making ip2/ip2main
one module (ip2), Kconfig shouldn't mention a now non-existing module.
Signed-off-by: Roland.Kletzing <devzero@web.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
By turning off the new CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS option and dropping the
associated code and tables from the kernel, we can save about 7KiB.
Taken from linux-tiny project by Tim Bird and mangled further by dwmw2.
Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Select FW_LOADER since moxa needs it, otherwise we face link problems such
as:
drivers/built-in.o: In function
moxa_pci_probe':moxa.c:(.devinit.text+0x76d8): undefined reference to
request_firmware'
:moxa.c:(.devinit.text+0x7e6e): undefined reference to release_firmware'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
Reported-by: Philippe Roussel <p.o.roussel@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make /dev/kmem a config option; /dev/kmem is VERY rarely used, and when
used, it's generally for no good (rootkits tend to be the most common
users). With this config option, users have the choice to disable
/dev/kmem, saving some size as well.
A patch to disable /dev/kmem has been in the Fedora and RHEL kernels for
4+ years now without any known problems or legit users of /dev/kmem.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make CONFIG_DEVKMEM default to y]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kconfig tweaks to help reduce RTC configuration bugs, by avoiding
legacy RTC drivers when the generic RTC framework is enabled:
- If rtc-cmos is selected, disable the legacy rtc driver;
- When using generic RTC on x86, enable rtc-cmos by default;
- In the old "chardev RTC" section of Kconfig, add a comment
warning people off these (seven) legacy RTC drivers when
the generic framework is in use.
People can still use the legacy drivers if they want (or need) to.
This doesn't fix the broken dependencies for the legacy "CMOS" RTC driver.
Ideally it would be a full list of platforms where it works, not a partial
list of ones where it won't. Or better yet, it would depend on a
"HAVE_CMOS_RTC" flag defined by various platforms ... surely there's a
Kconfig style guideline lurking there.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
initial char driver for otp memory
(only read supported atm ... needs real examples/docs for write support)
v2-v3:
- fixup __initdata with __initconst, as we are heading for 2.6.26
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
This patch fixes the following compile error:
<-- snip -->
...
CC [M] drivers/char/genrtc.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/char/genrtc.c:58:21: error: asm/rtc.h: No such file or directory
...
make[3]: *** [drivers/char/genrtc.o] Error 1
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
This patch fixes the following compile error:
<-- snip -->
...
CC [M] drivers/char/rtc.o
In file included from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/char/rtc.c:70:
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/include/linux/mc146818rtc.h:16:59: error: asm/mc146818rtc.h: No such file or directory
...
make[3]: *** [drivers/char/rtc.o] Error 1
<-- snip -->
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Also update references to sonypi.txt in Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
