genode/base-mb
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
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doc Fix section declaration in 'base-mb/doc/microblaze.txt' 2012-01-10 18:56:40 +01:00
etc Imported Genode release 11.11 2011-12-22 16:19:25 +01:00
include Unify policy name for Native_capability_tpl. 2012-03-10 15:52:13 +01:00
lib/mk Unify policy name for Native_capability_tpl. 2012-03-10 15:52:13 +01:00
mk Imported Genode release 11.11 2011-12-22 16:19:25 +01:00
platform Imported Genode release 11.11 2011-12-22 16:19:25 +01:00
run Imported Genode release 11.11 2011-12-22 16:19:25 +01:00
src Add support for allocating DMA memory 2012-06-20 09:17:48 +02:00
README Imported Genode release 11.11 2011-12-22 16:19:25 +01:00

README

This repository contains the port of Genode for Xilinx MicroBlaze-based
platforms. It is based on an custom microkernel implementation, which is also
part of this repository. To get an overview on the this platform and the
underlying microkernel please refer to the introduction located at:

! <GENODE_DIR>/base-mb/doc/microblaze.txt

To get a quick overview about how to work with this platform, you may read the
getting-started guide located at:

! <GENODE_DIR>/base-mb/doc/getting_started.txt