I have no idea where the previous default alignment = 2 in the unsynchronized
singleton came from but as at least the Arndale IC-driver in base-hw needs an
alignment of 4 = address width, unmanaged singleton now uses sizeof(addr_t)
as default alignment.
ref #989
An unmanaged singleton is a singleton object that isn't
constructed or destructed implicitly through the C++ runtime
enviroment. The new header provides a helper to create such objects
and is located in src/base/include.
ref #989
With 64K stack size, when doing 'make core' in noux on base-hw, the main thread
of /libexec/gcc/arm-elf-eabi/4.7.2/cc1plus runs into a stack overflow during
the compilation of core/main.o . Thus raise the stack size to 128K.
fix#964
The previously used RAM 0x0..0x10000000 was just an alias for
0x70000000..0x80000000. Qemu provides up to of 768 MB RAM with the
correct -m argument. This RAM is located at 0x70000000..0x90000000 and
0x20000000..0x30000000. At least the noux_tool_chain scripts are
happy to have that much RAM.
ref #964
The platform driver is used to access the features provided by the
Videocore mboxes, i.e., power configuration and framebuffer setup. The
framebuffer driver uses the platform interface to setup a screen mode of
1024x768.
At the current stage, the USB HID and storage drivers are prinicpally
working but not stable. If interrupts are not processed fast enough,
devices will get sporadically disconnected.
The USB host-controller driver is not part of the normal Linux kernel.
For this reason, we need to download it separately. There exists a
'prepare_rpi' rule in the 'dde_linux/Makefile' to automate this process.
Provide core-local signal service before other services to enable the use
of signal connections while initialzing the other services. This has been
introduced due to the use of the signal framework by the pager lib in
base-hw (RM service).
ref #935
The copy constructor of Signal did not copy the Signal::Data contents of
the copy source. This bug could survive undetected because the compiler
can optimize code in a way, that copy constructor and destructor are not
necessary when returning by value from simple functions. I assume that
it creates the object in CPU registers instead of RAM and reuses it
instead of copying it to save time. This way the bug triggered first
after wait_for_signal was changed in a way that avoided optimization.
ref #912
The new 'String' buffer type is meant to replace the manually created
character buffers that are scattered throughout Genode. It plainly holds
a null-terminated string to be stored as a member variable (e.g., a
session label) or passed as RPC argument. It is not intended to become a
string API.
