forked from MIrrors/gasket-driver
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The Gasket (Google ASIC Software, Kernel Extensions, and Tools) kernel framework is a generic, flexible system that supports thin kernel drivers. Gasket kernel drivers are expected to handle opening and closing devices, mmap'ing BAR space as requested, a small selection of ioctls, and handling page table translation (covered below). Any other functions should be handled by userspace code. The Gasket common module is not enough to run a device. In order to customize the Gasket code for a given piece of hardware, a device specific module must be created. At a minimum, this module must define a struct gasket_driver_desc containing the device-specific data for use by the framework; in addition, the module must declare an __init function that calls gasket_register_device with the module's gasket_driver_desc struct. Finally, the driver must define an exit function that calls gasket_unregister_device with the module's gasket_driver_desc struct. One of the core assumptions of the Gasket framework is that precisely one process is allowed to have an open write handle to the device node at any given time. (That process may, once it has one write handle, open any number of additional write handles.) This is accomplished by tracking open and close data for each driver instance. Change-Id: I0ce1dc1dc9c533026adbc3aacaefb830ecdbc3e9 Signed-off-by: Rob Springer <rspringer@google.com> Signed-off-by: John Joseph <jnjoseph@google.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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menu "Gasket devices"
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config STAGING_GASKET_FRAMEWORK
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tristate "Gasket framework"
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depends on PCI && X86_64
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help
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This framework supports Gasket-compatible devices, such as Apex.
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It is required for any of the following module(s).
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To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
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will be called "gasket".
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config STAGING_APEX_DRIVER
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tristate "Apex Driver"
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depends on STAGING_GASKET_FRAMEWORK
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help
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This driver supports the Apex device. Say Y if you want to
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include this driver in the kernel.
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To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module
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will be called "apex".
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endmenu
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