[PATCH 0/5] Raspberry Pi VideoCore support for console on HDMI output

[Gedare Bloom]

Looks like 1/5 got stuck.

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 6:54 AM,  <ppisa4lists at pikron.com> wrote:
> From: Pavel Pisa <ppisa at pikron.com>
>
> The series updates and cleans YANG Qiao GSoC 2015 work for actual
> RTEMS 4.12 development version.
>
> The changes require that VideoCore firmware is running even
> if video output is not used because mailbox based communication
> with VideoCore is used to obtain SD command line parameters
> passed to the RTEMS application image and to limit RTEMS RAM
> workarea to not go beyond VideoCore assigned memory start.
>
> The two options configurable by "cmdline.txt" file read
> and made accessible by VideoCore firmware are present
>
>   --video=
>      possible values
>          auto  - select mode automatically according to the connected monitor
>          off  (or none) - disable video support
>          width x height with optional bpp - for example 800x600 or 800x600-32
>
>   --console=
>      fbcons - redirect RTEMS console output to the connected monitor
>          if --video= is not specified/enabled or monitor is not detected
>          then output stays to be connected to the UART
>
> Typical "cmdline.txt" content for testing
>
>   --video=auto --console=fbcons
>
> WARNING: the used VideoCore service for command line arguments retrieval
>          returns only these arguments setup in "cmdline.txt".
>          Arguments provided to U-boot or other loader are ignored.
>
> Code has been tested or Raspberry Pi 1 with U-boot + TFTP and with direct
> boot from SD card with and without monitor connected.
>
> Pavel Pisa (2):
>   arm/raspberrypi: cmdline enhancement and early access workaround.
>   arm/raspberrypi: move MMU in front of application image to respect
>     variable memory size.
>
> YANG Qiao (3):
>   arm/raspberrypi: add VideoCore framebuffer without initialization
>   arm/raspberrypi: add video outchar support for rpi bsp
>   arm/raspberrypi: add fbcons support for rpi bsp
>
>  c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/Makefile.am       |   13 +-
>  .../arm/raspberrypi/console/console-config.c       |   12 +-
>  .../arm/raspberrypi/console/console_select.c       |  114 +
>  c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/fb.c      |  385 ++
>  c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/fbcons.c  |  184 +
>  c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/fbcons.h  |   47 +
>  .../lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/font_data.h | 4639 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/outch.c   |  411 ++
>  c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/include/bsp.h     |    9 +
>  c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/include/rpi-fb.h  |   53 +
>  c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/preinstall.am     |    8 +
>  .../arm/raspberrypi/startup/bspgetworkarea.c       |   74 +
>  .../libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/startup/bspstarthooks.c |    4 +
>  c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/startup/cmdline.c |   12 +-
>  c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/startup/linkcmds  |    6 +-
>  c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/startup/mminit.c  |   31 +
>  16 files changed, 5991 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/console_select.c
>  create mode 100644 c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/fb.c
>  create mode 100644 c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/fbcons.c
>  create mode 100644 c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/fbcons.h
>  create mode 100644 c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/font_data.h
>  create mode 100644 c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/console/outch.c
>  create mode 100644 c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/include/rpi-fb.h
>  create mode 100644 c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/startup/bspgetworkarea.c
>  create mode 100644 c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/raspberrypi/startup/mminit.c
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>