1. 20 9月, 2011 1 次提交
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      powerpc/powernv: Support for OPAL console · daea1175
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      This adds a udbg and an hvc console backend for supporting a console
      using the OPAL console interfaces.
      
      On OPAL v1 we have hvc0 mapped to whatever console the system was
      configured for (network or hvsi serial port) via the service
      processor.
      
      On OPAL v2 we have hvcN mapped to the Nth console provided by OPAL
      which generally corresponds to:
      
      	hvc0 : network console (raw protocol)
      	hvc1 : serial port S1 (hvsi)
      	hvc2 : serial port S2 (hvsi)
      
      Note: At this point, early debug console only works with OPAL v1
      and shouldn't be enabled in a normal kernel.
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      daea1175
  2. 29 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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      powerpc/pseries: Re-implement HVSI as part of hvc_vio · 4d2bb3f5
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      On pseries machines, consoles are provided by the hypervisor using
      a low level get_chars/put_chars type interface. However, this is
      really just a transport to the service processor which implements
      them either as "raw" console (networked consoles, HMC, ...) or as
      "hvsi" serial ports.
      
      The later is a simple packet protocol on top of the raw character
      interface that is supposed to convey additional "serial port" style
      semantics. In practice however, all it does is provide a way to
      read the CD line and set/clear our DTR line, that's it.
      
      We currently implement the "raw" protocol as an hvc console backend
      (/dev/hvcN) and the "hvsi" protocol using a separate tty driver
      (/dev/hvsi0).
      
      However this is quite impractical. The arbitrary difference between
      the two type of devices has been a major source of user (and distro)
      confusion. Additionally, there's an additional mini -hvsi implementation
      in the pseries platform code for our low level debug console and early
      boot kernel messages, which means code duplication, though that low
      level variant is impractical as it's incapable of doing the initial
      protocol negociation to establish the link to the FSP.
      
      This essentially replaces the dedicated hvsi driver and the platform
      udbg code completely by extending the existing hvc_vio backend used
      in "raw" mode so that:
      
       - It now supports HVSI as well
       - We add support for hvc backend providing tiocm{get,set}
       - It also provides a udbg interface for early debug and boot console
      
      This is overall less code, though this will only be obvious once we
      remove the old "hvsi" driver, which is still available for now. When
      the old driver is enabled, the new code still kicks in for the low
      level udbg console, replacing the old mini implementation in the platform
      code, it just doesn't provide the higher level "hvc" interface.
      
      In addition to producing generally simler code, this has several benefits
      over our current situation:
      
       - The user/distro only has to deal with /dev/hvcN for the hypervisor
      console, avoiding all sort of confusion that has plagued us in the past
      
       - The tty, kernel and low level debug console all use the same code
      base which supports the full protocol establishment process, thus the
      console is now available much earlier than it used to be with the
      old HVSI driver. The kernel console works much earlier and udbg is
      available much earlier too. Hackers can enable a hard coded very-early
      debug console as well that works with HVSI (previously that was only
      supported for the "raw" mode).
      
      I've tried to keep the same semantics as hvsi relative to how I react
      to things like CD changes, with some subtle differences though:
      
       - I clear DTR on close if HUPCL is set
      
       - Current hvsi triggers a hangup if it detects a up->down transition
         on CD (you can still open a console with CD down). My new implementation
         triggers a hangup if the link to the FSP is severed, and severs it upon
         detecting a up->down transition on CD.
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      4d2bb3f5
  3. 23 2月, 2011 1 次提交