On x86, DMA buffers are actually always mapped as cached. We should
therefore actually ask for a cached buffer in order to avoid confusion.
genodelabs/genode#5000
The initial memory backend implementation was brought over from DDE
Linux and was geared towards use-cases where a high-performing
allocator is useful. In case of the audio driver this is overkill
and since no other driver that could benefit from such an
implementation was ported in the meantime rather use a simpler
implementation that keeps the overhead down.
Fixes#4946.
This commit updates the driver from version 6.6 to 7.1. In contrast
to the old driver the new one will now probe all available HDA devices
and will drive the first usable one, e.g.:
```
[init -> audio_drv] azalia0 [8086:160c]
[init -> audio_drv] :
[init -> audio_drv] azalia0: no supported codecs
[init -> audio_drv] azalia1 [8086:9ca0]
[init -> audio_drv] :
[init -> audio_drv] azalia1: codecs: Realtek ALC292
[init -> audio_drv] audio0 at azalia1
```
Fixes#4629.
This patch changes the 'Allocator' interface to the use of 'Attempt'
return values instead of using exceptions for propagating errors.
To largely uphold compatibility with components using the original
exception-based interface - in particluar use cases where an 'Allocator'
is passed to the 'new' operator - the traditional 'alloc' is still
supported. But it existes merely as a wrapper around the new
'try_alloc'.
Issue #4324
This patch extends the 'Platform_session::alloc_dma_buffer' interface
with a 'Cache' argument that corresponds to the argument accepted by
'Ram_allocator::alloc', which is used by the platform driver under the
hood.
Since the x86 platform driver used to be hardwired to allocate DMA
buffers as UNCACHED, I adjusted all drivers by specifying the UNCACHED
argument. Right now, this is needed as a hint for core to steer the
allocation of I/O page tables. Once we eliminate the need for such hints
(by introducing an explicit 'Region_map::attach_dma' operation), we can
revisit the drivers individually because cached DMA buffers should
generally be fine on the x86 architecture.
Issue #2243
This patch changes the 'alloc_aligned' interface as follows:
- The former 'from' and 'to' arguments are replaced by a single
'range' argument.
- The distinction of the use cases of regular allocations vs.
address-constrained allocations is now overed by a dedicated
overload instead of relying on a default argument.
- The 'align' argument has been changed from 'int' to 'unsigned'
to be better compatible with 'addr_t' and 'size_t'.
Fixes#4067
The supported drivers so far exclusively used PCI and for practical
reasons the emulation environment was to tied to. To make future
addition of drivers that employ other transport busses easier, split
the bus handling into its own backend.
This is preliminary clean-up work before introducing the USB audio
driver.
Issue #3929.
