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6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Norman Feske
288fd4e56e Add support for allocating DMA memory
This patch extends the RAM session interface with the ability to
allocate DMA buffers. The client specifies the type of RAM dataspace to
allocate via the new 'cached' argument of the 'Ram_session::alloc()'
function. By default, 'cached' is true, which correponds to the common
case and the original behavior. When setting 'cached' to 'false', core
takes the precautions needed to register the memory as uncached in the
page table of each process that has the dataspace attached.

Currently, the support for allocating DMA buffers is implemented for
Fiasco.OC only. On x86 platforms, it is generally not needed. But on
platforms with more relaxed cache coherence (such as ARM), user-level
device drivers should always use uncacheable memory for DMA transactions.
2012-06-20 09:17:48 +02:00
Christian Prochaska
7a369bc74d Add an 'executable' flag to 'Rm_session::attach()'
With this patch clients of the RM service can state if they want a mapping
to be executable or not. This allows dataspaces to be mapped as
non-executable on Linux by default and as executable only if needed.

Partially fixes #176.
2012-04-20 11:21:19 +02:00
Norman Feske
d6e30c19de Replace 'Native_capability::copy_to' by accessor
The 'copy_to' function turned out to be not flexible enough to
accommodate the Noux fork mechanism. This patch removes the function,
adds an accessor for the capability destination and a compound type
'Native_capability::Raw' to be used wherever plain capability
information must be communicated.
2012-03-28 09:58:51 +02:00
Stefan Kalkowski
ae8cf5f44d Rename tid() to dst() in Native_capability.
As suggested by Norman in the discussion of issue #145, this commit
renames the tid() accessor in Native_capability to dst().
2012-03-10 15:52:19 +01:00
Norman Feske
08ce32215d Bump year in copyright headers to 2012 2012-01-03 15:35:05 +01:00
Genode Labs
da4e1feaa5 Imported Genode release 11.11 2011-12-22 16:19:25 +01:00