OvmfPkg/QemuFwCfgLib: support QEMU's DMA-like fw_cfg access method

The benefits of the DMA-like access method are (a) speed, (b) write
support in QEMU 2.9+.

(IOPort-based write support was discontinued in QEMU 2.4, and the
DMA-based one is being added to QEMU 2.9. Write support needs no separate
feature detection because writeability is governed on the level of
individual fw_cfg files -- if a file meant to be written by the firmware
exists in the directory, then it is writeable with the DMA method.)

We don't enable this feature for the SEC library instance, because:
- the SEC instance remains without clients (I've checked that it builds
  though),
- in SEC, any possible fw_cfg use is expected to be small and read-only.

Cc: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>
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Laszlo Ersek
2016-11-30 13:13:40 +01:00
parent d61a5f45a9
commit 2c8dcbc65a
4 changed files with 124 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -30,4 +30,17 @@ InternalQemuFwCfgIsAvailable (
VOID
);
/**
Returns a boolean indicating whether QEMU provides the DMA-like access method
for fw_cfg.
@retval TRUE The DMA-like access method is available.
@retval FALSE The DMA-like access method is unavailable.
**/
BOOLEAN
InternalQemuFwCfgDmaIsAvailable (
VOID
);
#endif