linux-toradex.git/drivers/platform/goldfish/Kconfig, branch v3.11 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules goldfish: add QEMU pipe driver 2013-01-24T21:49:34+00:00 David 'Digit' Turner digit@android.com 2013-01-21T23:48:21+00:00 c89f2750e9845aa115ca30c062edd569da619cad A QEMU pipe is a very fast communication channel between the guest system and the emulator. Usage from the guest is simply something like; // connect to special device fd = open("/dev/qemu_pipe", O_RDWR); // tell which service we want to talk to (must be zero-terminated) write(fd, "pipeName", strlen("pipeName")+1); // do read()/write() through fd now ... // close channel close(fd); Signed-off-by: David 'Digit' Turner <digit@android.com> [Added support for parameter buffers for speed] igned-off-by: Xin, Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang, Yunhong <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nakajima, Jun <jun.nakajima@intel.com> [Ported to 3.6] Signed-off-by: Tom Keel <thomas.keel@intel.com> [Ported to 3.7, moved to platform/goldfish] Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
A QEMU pipe is a very fast communication channel between the
guest system and the emulator. Usage from the guest is simply
something like;

  // connect to special device
  fd = open("/dev/qemu_pipe", O_RDWR);

  // tell which service we want to talk to (must be zero-terminated)
  write(fd, "pipeName", strlen("pipeName")+1);

  // do read()/write() through fd now
  ...

  // close channel
  close(fd);

Signed-off-by: David 'Digit' Turner <digit@android.com>
[Added support for parameter buffers for speed]
igned-off-by: Xin, Xiaohui <xiaohui.xin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang, Yunhong <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nakajima, Jun <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
[Ported to 3.6]
Signed-off-by: Tom Keel <thomas.keel@intel.com>
[Ported to 3.7, moved to platform/goldfish]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>