doc: update components, porting guide, README

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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ of them is briefly characterized as follows:
via core's IO_MEM, IO_PORT, and IRQ services. The functionality of
the driver is made available to other system components by announcing
one of Genode's device-independent session interfaces, which are
'pci_session', 'framebuffer_session', 'input_session', 'block_session',
'platform_session', 'framebuffer_session', 'input_session', 'block_session',
'audio_out_session', 'log_session', 'nic_session', and 'timer_session'
(see 'os/include/' for the interface definitions). Those interfaces are
uniform across hardware platforms and kernel base platforms. Usually,
@ -67,20 +67,17 @@ repositories. The most predominant repositories hosting device drivers are
Platform devices
================
:'os/src/drivers/platform/': Platform drivers for various ARM boards.
:'os/src/drivers/pci':
Implements the PCI-session interface using the PCI controller as found on
x86 PC hardware. Using this interface, a client can probe for a particular
device and request information about physical device resources (using the
'pci_device' interface). I/O resources for MMIO regions, I/O ports, and
interrupts can be requested by the provided PCI device abstraction.
:'os/src/drivers/platform/': Platform drivers for various platforms.
On x86, the platform driver uses the PCI controller as found on x86 PC
hardware. A client can probe for a particular device and request information
about physical device resources (using the 'platform_device' interface). I/O
resources for MMIO regions, I/O ports, and interrupts can be requested by the
provided device abstraction.
:'os/src/drivers/acpi':
On x86 platforms that use the APIC (namely Fiasco.OC, NOVA, and hw_x86_64)
this simple ACPI parser traverses the ACPI tables and updates interrupt line
information of PCI devices within the PCI config space. It uses the pci_drv as
a utility started as a child and exports its interface.
this simple ACPI parser traverses the ACPI tables and reports device-resource
information (e.g., interrupt lines of PCI devices).
UART devices
@ -180,16 +177,17 @@ provided by the kernel, or a pseudo time source (busy):
:'linux': nanosleep as time source
Audio output drivers
====================
Audio drivers
=============
All audio-output drivers implement the audio session interface defined at
'os/include/audio_out_session/'.
Audio drivers implement the Audio_out session interface defined at
'os/include/audio_out_session/' for playback and optionally the audio_in
interface for recording.
:'os/src/drivers/audio_out/linux':
Uses ALSA as back-end on the Linux base platform.
:'os/src/drivers/audio/linux':
Uses ALSA as back-end on the Linux base platform and supports only playback.
:'dde_bsd/src/drivers/audio_out':
:'dde_bsd/src/drivers/audio':
Sound drivers ported from OpenBSD. Currently, the repository
includes support for Intel HD Audio as well as for Ensoniq AudioPCI
(ES1370) compatible sound cards.
@ -262,6 +260,9 @@ General-purpose I/O drivers
:'os/src/drivers/gpio/imx53':
Driver for accessing the GPIO pins of i.MX53 platforms.
:'os/src/drivers/gpio/rpi':
Driver for accessing the GPIO pins of Raspberry Pi platforms.
Resource multiplexers
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@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ at _ports/run/dosbox.run_.
First, we specify the components that need to be built
! set build_components {
! core init drivers/audio_out drivers/framebuffer drivers/input
! core init drivers/audio drivers/framebuffer drivers/input
! drivers/pci drivers/timer server/tar_fs app/dosbox
! }
! build $build_components
@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ Nextm we provide the scenario's configuration 'config':
! <default-route>
! <any-service> <parent/> <any-child/> </any-service>
! </default-route>
! <start name="audio_out_drv">
! <start name="audio_drv">
! <resource name="RAM" quantum="6M"/>}
! <provides><service name="Audio_out"/></provides>
! </start>
@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ components and application of the scenario, including DosBox.
Thereafter we declare all boot modules:
! set boot_modules {
! core init timer audio_out_drv fb_drv ps2_drv ld.lib.so
! core init timer audio_drv fb_drv ps2_drv ld.lib.so
! libc.lib.so libm.lib.so
! lwip.lib.so libpng.lib.so stdcxx.lib.so sdl.lib.so
! pthread.lib.so zlib.lib.so dosbox dosbox.tar
@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ Even though Genode encourages writing native device drivers, this task sometimes
becomes infeasible. Especially if there is no documentation available for a
certain device or if there are not enough programming resources at hand to
implement a fully fledged driver. Examples of ported drivers can be found in
the 'dde_linux', 'dde_oss', and 'dde_ipxe' repositories.
the 'dde_linux', 'dde_bsd', and 'dde_ipxe' repositories.
In this chapter we will exemplary discuss how to port a Linux driver for an ARM
based SoC to Genode. The goal is to execute driver code in user land directly on

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@ -61,10 +61,9 @@ but build upon of each other:
Codezero microkernel developed by B-Labs
See [http://genode.org/documentation/platforms/codezero]
:'host':
Pseudo platform documenting the interface between the generic and
platform-specific parts of the base framework. This is not a functional
base platform.
:'sel4':
seL4 microkernel developed at NICTA/General Dynamics
See[https://sel4.systems/]
:'os':
@ -102,10 +101,10 @@ but build upon of each other:
This source-code repository contains the device-driver environment for
executing drivers of the iPXE project.
:'dde_oss':
:'dde_bsd':
This source-code repository contains the device-driver environment for the
audio drivers of the Open Sound System (OSS).
This source-code repository contains the device-driver environment for
drivers of the OpenBSD operating system.
:'dde_rump':