Interface virtio_con.h

This interface provides the ability to initalise a VMM virtio console driver. This creating a virtio PCI device in the VM’s virtual pci. This can subsequently be accessed through ‘/dev/hvc0’ in the guest.

Brief content:

Functions:

common_make_virtio_con(vm, pci, ioport, ioport_range, port_type, interrupt_pin, interrupt_lin, backend)

Structs:

virtio_con

Functions

The interface virtio_con.h defines the following functions.

Function common_make_virtio_con(vm, pci, ioport, ioport_range, port_type, interrupt_pin, interrupt_lin, backend)

Initialise a new virtio_con device with Base Address Registers (BARs) starting at iobase and backend functions specified by the console_passthrough struct. virtio_con_default_backend for default methods.

Parameters:

• vm {vm_t *}: Handle to the VM
• pci {vmm_pci_space_t *}: PCI library instance to register virtio con device
• ioport {vmm_io_port_list_t *}: IOPort library instance to register virtio con ioport
• ioport_range {ioport_range_t}: BAR port for front end emulation
• iotype {ioport_type_t}: Type of ioport i.e. whether to alloc or use given range
• interrupt_pin {unsigned int}: PCI interrupt pin e.g. INTA = 1, INTB = 2 ,…
• interrupt_line {unsigned int}: PCI interrupt line for virtio con IRQS
• backend {struct console_passthrough}: Function pointers to backend implementation. Can be initialised by

Returns:

• Pointer to an initialised virtio_con_t, NULL if error.

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Structs

The interface virtio_con.h defines the following structs.

Struct virtio_con

Virtio Console Driver Interface

Elements:

• iobase {unsigned int}: IO Port base for virtio con device
• emul {virtio_emul_t *}: Virtio console emulation interface: VMM <-> Guest
• emul_driver_funcs {struct console_passthrough}: Virtio console emulation functions: VMM <-> Guest
• ioops {ps_io_ops_t}: Platform support io ops datastructure

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