With these options enabled comparative testing between pc_linux drivers
and bzImages becomes much easier on EFI-only machines. The impact on the
actual Genode drivers is minimal.
The driver was only tested with an "Atheros AR9462 Rev:2" [168c:0034]
device using the 'wifi.run' run script.
Note: for it to work MSI may not be used as otherwise interrupts do not
work. Using an IOMMU leads to the following fault:
[ 0] IOMMU:0xffffffff817eb0b0 FRR:0 FR:0x22 BDF:4:0:0 FI:0xb0000000000000 (0)
Issue #4813
Due to lacking hardware access the driver was test with one RTL8188EE
based device, namely [10ec:8179] (rev 01), only. As the access to the
PCI config space is restricted the driver loads the non power-saving
FW and the driver port is therefor only tested with that. The
accesses are documented should we choose to support them one way or
another later on.
The 'wifi.run' run script as well as Sculpt served as testing ground
where the driver worked fine so far.
Fixes#4714.
Genode build system allows to easily enable 'ccache' for builds. This
change allows to enable using 'ccache' also for build of reference
Linux kernel used during porting device drivers.
To enable 'ccache' it is enough to pass value of 'CC' variable when
executing Linux build but this build by default depends on time when it
is built which causes 'ccache' misses. To solve this issue additional
flags are passed to make build independent from time, current user and
host on which build is performed.
Issue #4718
Enables symetric-multi-processor support in the Linux kernel configuration
used as base for the driver ports for PC. This is done to be compliant with
common usage of x86 drivers today.
Moreover, this commit uses the original kernel source for softirq/tasklet
implementation to get rid of the insufficient shadow implementation
in the lx_emul sources.
Ref genodelabs/genode#4562
Instead of each driver providing its own header file use a central
header as the initcall order header should cover _all_ provided
initcalls resulting from the used 'pc_linux' kernel config.
Note that the 'pc_linux' configuration was extended with the
'USB_USBNET' option because the module's initcall is needed for the
Genode C API for USB glue-code and the 'PACKET' option needed by
the wireless lan driver.
The lack of theses options was not noticed as each driver used its
own initcall header so far that stemmed from the initial porting
effort.
Issue #4500.
required by the upcoming update of the intel display driver. Make this addition
explicit, because it triggers adjustment also on the new pc_usb_host_drv.
Issue #4450
.SHELLFLAGS is extended by option pipefail to make pipes fail if any pipe
element fails. As .SHELLFLAGS is exported into sub-make instances it
must be unexported before calling third-party build systems recursively.
This commit contains:
* Minimal Linux kernel target: pc_linux
* Library to generate a Linux build directory, config, generated headers
* API depot package
The actual work was provided by Josef Soentgen.
Ref genodelabs/genode#4416
