genode/os/include
Norman Feske 9a00ad7ae3 Support for dynamic ROM sessions, fix #170
This patch introduces support for ROM sessions that update their
provided data during the lifetime of the session. The 'Rom_session'
interface had been extended with the new 'release()' and 'sigh()'
functions, which are needed to support the new protocol. All ROM
services have been updated to the new interface.

Furthermore, the patch changes the child policy of init
with regard to the handling of configuration files. The 'Init::Child'
used to always provide the ROM dataspace with the child's config file
via a locally implemented ROM service. However, for dynamic ROM
sessions, we need to establish a session to the real supplier of the ROM
data. This is achieved by using a new 'Child_policy_redirect_rom_file'
policy to handle the 'configfile' rather than handling the 'configfile'
case entirely within 'Child_config'.

To see the new facility in action, the new 'os/run/dynamic_config.run'
script provides a simple scenario. The config file of the test program
is provided by a service, which generates and updates the config data
at regular intervals.

In addition, new support has been added to let slaves use dynamic
reconfiguration. By using the new 'Child_policy_dynamic_rom_file', the
configuration of a slave can be changed dynamically at runtime via the
new 'configure()' function.

The config is provided as plain null-terminated string (instead of a
dataspace capability) because we need to buffer the config data anyway.
So there is no benefit of using a dataspace. For buffering configuration
data, a 'Ram_session' must be supplied. If no 'Ram_session' is specified
at construction time of a 'Slave_policy', no config is supplied to the
slave (which is still a common case).

An example for dynamically reconfiguring a slave is provided by
'os/run/dynamic_config_slave.run'.
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audio_out_session Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
blit Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
block Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
block_session Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
dde_kit Follow-up for spin-lock unification, ref #123 2012-03-01 10:57:05 +01:00
framebuffer_session Qualifying RPC functions as const 2012-01-27 16:54:05 +01:00
gpu Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
init Support for dynamic ROM sessions, fix #170 2012-04-05 11:25:26 +02:00
input Qualifying RPC functions as const 2012-01-27 16:54:05 +01:00
input_session Qualifying RPC functions as const 2012-01-27 16:54:05 +01:00
ldso Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
loader_session Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
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nitpicker_session Replace Framebuffer::info by Framebuffer::mode 2012-01-25 13:27:47 +01:00
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os Support for dynamic ROM sessions, fix #170 2012-04-05 11:25:26 +02:00
packet_stream_rx Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
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pci_device Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
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platform Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
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timer_session Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
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