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author | Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com> | 2015-08-28 09:58:54 +0800 |
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committer | Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com> | 2015-09-01 12:44:00 +0800 |
commit | e44e3482bdb4d0ebde2d8b41830ac2cdb07948fb (patch) | |
tree | 66b09f592c55df2878107a468a91d21506104d3f /qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.iomux | |
parent | 9ca8dbcc65cfc63d6f5ef3312a33184e1d726e00 (diff) |
Add qemu 2.4.0
Change-Id: Ic99cbad4b61f8b127b7dc74d04576c0bcbaaf4f5
Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>
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diff --git a/qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.iomux b/qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.iomux new file mode 100644 index 000000000..044240db3 --- /dev/null +++ b/qemu/roms/u-boot/doc/README.iomux @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +/* + * (C) Copyright 2008 + * Gary Jennejohn, DENX Software Engineering GmbH <garyj@denx.de> + * + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ + */ + +U-Boot console multiplexing +=========================== + +HOW CONSOLE MULTIPLEXING WORKS +------------------------------ + +This functionality is controlled with CONFIG_CONSOLE_MUX in the board +configuration file. + +Two new files, common/iomux.c and include/iomux.h, contain the heart +(iomux_doenv()) of the environment setting implementation. + +iomux_doenv() is called in common/cmd_nvedit.c to handle setenv and in +common/console.c in console_init_r() during bootup to initialize +stdio_devices[]. + +A user can use a comma-separated list of devices to set stdin, stdout +and stderr. For example: "setenv stdin serial,nc". NOTE: No spaces +are allowed around the comma(s)! + +The length of the list is limited by malloc(), since the array used +is allocated and freed dynamically. + +It should be possible to specify any device which console_assign() +finds acceptable, but the code has only been tested with serial and +nc. + +iomux_doenv() prevents multiple use of the same device, e.g. "setenv +stdin nc,nc,serial" will discard the second nc. iomux_doenv() is +not able to modify the environment, however, so that "pri stdin" still +shows "nc,nc,serial". + +The major change in common/console.c was to modify fgetc() to call +the iomux_tstc() routine in a for-loop. iomux_tstc() in turn calls +the tstc() routine for every registered device, but exits immediately +when one of them returns true. fgetc() then calls iomux_getc(), +which calls the corresponding getc() routine. fgetc() hangs in +the for-loop until iomux_tstc() returns true and the input can be +retrieved. + +Thus, a user can type into any device registered for stdin. No effort +has been made to demulitplex simultaneous input from multiple stdin +devices. + +fputc() and fputs() have been modified to call iomux_putc() and +iomux_puts() respectively, which call the corresponding output +routines for every registered device. + +Thus, a user can see the ouput for any device registered for stdout +or stderr on all devices registered for stdout or stderr. As an +example, if stdin=serial,nc and stdout=serial,nc then all output +for serial, e.g. echos of input on serial, will appear on serial and nc. + +Just as with the old console code, this statement is still true: +If not defined in the environment, the first input device is assigned +to the 'stdin' file, the first output one to 'stdout' and 'stderr'. + +If CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV is defined then multiple input/output +devices can be set at boot time if defined in the environment. + +CAVEATS +------- + +Note that common/iomux.c calls console_assign() for every registered +device as it is discovered. This means that the environment settings +for application consoles will be set to the last device in the list. + +On a slow machine, such as MPC852T clocked at 66MHz, the overhead associated +with calling tstc() and then getc() means that copy&paste will normally not +work, even when stdin=stdout=stderr=serial. +On a faster machine, such as a sequoia, cut&paste of longer (about 80 +characters) lines works fine when serial is the only device used. + +Using nc as a stdin device results in even more overhead because nc_tstc() +is quite slow. Even on a sequoia cut&paste does not work on the serial +interface when nc is added to stdin, although there is no character loss using +the ethernet interface for input. In this test case stdin=serial,nc and +stdout=serial. + +In addition, the overhead associated with sending to two devices, when one of +them is nc, also causes problems. Even on a sequoia cut&paste does not work +on the serial interface (stdin=serial) when nc is added to stdout (stdout= +serial,nc). |