genode/repos/base-foc/patches/0009-Bootstrap-read-out-comport-on-x86-from-BDA-area.patch

From 2cf8f6f608aa4ade16402c10751aaa7d90b994f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Boettcher <alexander.boettcher@genode-labs.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:30:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 09/15] Bootstrap: read out comport on x86 from BDA area

With this patch the comport are tried to read out from the BIOS Data Area
on x86 machines. The BDA Area are part of the first physical page and may
contain the non-default io ports of the comport.

When used together with 'bender' from the 'morbo' toolchain, even serial PCI
cards (also Intel's AMT Serial Over Line adapter) are detected automatically.
---
 l4/pkg/bootstrap/server/src/platform/x86_pc-base.h | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/l4/pkg/bootstrap/server/src/platform/x86_pc-base.h b/l4/pkg/bootstrap/server/src/platform/x86_pc-base.h
index c3e8c12f..95579c09 100644
--- a/l4/pkg/bootstrap/server/src/platform/x86_pc-base.h
+++ b/l4/pkg/bootstrap/server/src/platform/x86_pc-base.h
@@ -957,7 +957,11 @@ public:
           }
         else if (comport == -1)
           {
-            legacy_uart(1, comirq, &board);
+            /* try to read Bios Data Area (BDA) to get comport information */
+            unsigned short comport_count = (*((unsigned short *)0x410) >> 9) & 0x7;
+            if (comport_count) comport = *((unsigned short *)0x400), comirq, &board;
+            else comport = 1;
+            legacy_uart(comport, comirq, &board);
             comport = 0;
           }
         else
-- 
2.11.0