[coreboot] New patch to review for coreboot: 8f45a84 Add a capability for mainboard-specific posting.

Ronald G. Minnich (rminnich@gmail.com) gerrit at coreboot.org
Thu Aug 2 18:39:21 CEST 2012


Ronald G. Minnich (rminnich at gmail.com) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/1397

-gerrit

commit 8f45a843b44583fdeade2a78e657efe8424b144b
Author: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 2 09:34:05 2012 -0700

    Add a capability for mainboard-specific posting.
    
    Some mainboards have really nice capabilities for posting, beyond
    simple POST cards. Further, some can not use a POST card. This
    change defines a weak symbol (mainboard_post) that can be overridden
    by a real mainboard_post function.
    
    If, for example, you'd like to do something fancy before the payload starts,
    you can add this to mainboard.c:
    
    void mainboard_post(u8 value)
    {
    	switch(value){
    		case 0xfe: some_fancy_lights();
    		break;
    	}
    }
    
    Maybe the post function should be an entry in the device. We're beginning to over-use
    weak symbols.
    
    BUG=None
    
    TEST=Build and boot a google chromebook. Observe that it still works. Use it to drive
    some pretty lights.
    
    Change-Id: I3512d2ec34a66c747287191851c3f68b6a7cc1b2
    Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich at gmail.com>
---
 src/console/post.c            |    8 ++++++++
 src/include/console/console.h |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/console/post.c b/src/console/post.c
index 08336a2..0f95427 100644
--- a/src/console/post.c
+++ b/src/console/post.c
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@
 
 /* Write POST information */
 
+/* Some mainboards have very nice features beyond just a simple
+ * display. They can override this function.
+ */
+void __attribute__((weak)) mainboard_post(uint8_t value)
+{
+}
+
 void post_code(uint8_t value)
 {
 #if !CONFIG_NO_POST
@@ -33,5 +40,6 @@ void post_code(uint8_t value)
 	print_emerg("\n");
 #endif
 	outb(value, CONFIG_POST_PORT);
+	mainboard_post(value);
 #endif
 }
diff --git a/src/include/console/console.h b/src/include/console/console.h
index 56e202d..00be96f 100644
--- a/src/include/console/console.h
+++ b/src/include/console/console.h
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ extern int console_loglevel;
 #ifndef __ROMCC__
 void console_init(void);
 void post_code(u8 value);
+/* this function is weak and can be overridden by a mainboard function. */
+void mainboard_post(u8 value);
 void __attribute__ ((noreturn)) die(const char *msg);
 int do_printk(int msg_level, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__((format(printf, 2, 3)));
 




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