Committer: Michael Beasley <mike@snafu.setup>
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1 /*
2 * hvconsole.c
3 * Copyright (C) 2004 Hollis Blanchard, IBM Corporation
4 * Copyright (C) 2004 IBM Corporation
6 * Additional Author(s):
7 * Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
9 * LPAR console support.
11 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
12 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
13 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
14 * (at your option) any later version.
16 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
17 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
18 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
19 * GNU General Public License for more details.
21 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
22 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
23 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
26 #include <linux/kernel.h>
27 #include <linux/module.h>
28 #include <asm/hvcall.h>
29 #include <asm/hvconsole.h>
30 #include "plpar_wrappers.h"
32 /**
33 * hvc_get_chars - retrieve characters from firmware for denoted vterm adatper
34 * @vtermno: The vtermno or unit_address of the adapter from which to fetch the
35 * data.
36 * @buf: The character buffer into which to put the character data fetched from
37 * firmware.
38 * @count: not used?
40 int hvc_get_chars(uint32_t vtermno, char *buf, int count)
42 unsigned long got;
44 if (plpar_get_term_char(vtermno, &got, buf) == H_SUCCESS)
45 return got;
47 return 0;
50 EXPORT_SYMBOL(hvc_get_chars);
53 /**
54 * hvc_put_chars: send characters to firmware for denoted vterm adapter
55 * @vtermno: The vtermno or unit_address of the adapter from which the data
56 * originated.
57 * @buf: The character buffer that contains the character data to send to
58 * firmware.
59 * @count: Send this number of characters.
61 int hvc_put_chars(uint32_t vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
63 unsigned long *lbuf = (unsigned long *) buf;
64 long ret;
67 /* hcall will ret H_PARAMETER if 'count' exceeds firmware max.*/
68 if (count > MAX_VIO_PUT_CHARS)
69 count = MAX_VIO_PUT_CHARS;
71 ret = plpar_hcall_norets(H_PUT_TERM_CHAR, vtermno, count, lbuf[0],
72 lbuf[1]);
73 if (ret == H_SUCCESS)
74 return count;
75 if (ret == H_BUSY)
76 return 0;
77 return -EIO;
80 EXPORT_SYMBOL(hvc_put_chars);