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FdtBusDxe Overview

Note

See FdtBusPkg Documentation Style and Terms Definitions first.

FdtBusDxe is responsible for enumerating DT controllers based on Devicetree nodes, and implementing EFI_DT_IO_PROTOCOL for basic operations on such controllers, such as device property access, register I/O, DMA buffer handling and child device enumeration. It is overall meant as the logical successor for the existing Tiano FdtClientDxe component.

Entry

On loading, EntryPoint():

  • Looks for the Devicetree HOB (gFdtHobGuid).
    • The driver bails if the Devicetree HOB is not present or if the Devicetree structure appears to be corrupt.
    • On debug builds, check that the Devicetree is allocated in the UEFI memory map, i.e. not part of free memory.
  • Locates EFI_CPU_IO2_PROTOCOL (gEfiCpuIo2ProtocolGuid is in the [Depex] list)
  • Registers a notification callback on gEdkiiPlatformHasDeviceTreeGuid, which is the "UEFI will expose Devicetree to the OS" signal. The callback installs the managed Devicetree in the EFI Configuration Table, which matches FdtClientDxe behavior.
  • Registers an End-of-DXE notification callback. The callback ensures that controllers marked as critical are connected to their drivers and initialized when End-of-DXE is signalled during the BDS phase.
  • Registers as a bus driver, by:
    • Creating the device handle for the Devicetree root.
    • On debug builds, creating the device handle for the test Devicetree root (used for regression testing).
    • Registering the Driver Binding and Component Name protocols.

Unloading is not supported.

Driver Binding

Every Devicetree node can be ultimately exposed as an EFI_HANDLE with the EFI_DT_IO_PROTOCOL installed. Initially (ignoring the support for regression testing), there's only the root Devicetree node. Its direct children are enumerated by FdtBusDxe as part of the Start() Driver Binding Protocol function being invoked.

FdtBusDxe manages the following Devicetree nodes:

  • Devicetree root.
  • simple-bus (a simple container for devices).
  • Regression (unit) testing nodes.

Every enumerated node is tracked via a DT_DEVICE structure.

Stopping is supported.

Structure

File Description
ComponentName.c EFI_COMPONENT_NAME_PROTOCOL and EFI_COMPONENT_NAME2_PROTOCOL.
DriverBinding.c EFI_DRIVER_BINDING_PROTOCOL.
DtDevice.c DT_DEVICE object management.
DtIoProp.c Simple EFI_DT_IO_PROTOCOL property API wrappers.
DtIoPropParse.c Bulk of EFI_DT_PROPERTY management, property parsing and EFI_DT_IO_PROTOCOL property API.
DtIo.c EFI_DT_IO_PROTOCOL.
Entry.c Driver entrypoint and related.
Fdt.c Simple wrappres around libfdt functionality.
Utils.c Various.
Tests.c Regression tests.

Testing

Debug builds come with automatic regression testing. This uses an entirely separate Devicetree, and is managed separately - there is a separate test Devicetree root, and FdtBusDxe can easy differentiate a testing DT_DEVICE from a regular one.

The test Devicetree is built as part of building FdtBusPkg.dsc. Both the source and the resulting TestDt.dtbi file should be checked in, as the regular use of FdtBusPkg shouldn't involve adding new regression tests. The test Devicetree is embedded into the FdtBusDxe driver.

The nodes under /unit-test-devices are used for unit tests. Others (like /sample-device) are for playing around with sample driver code.

The regression test for each unit test device is invoked from DriverStart(). The tests are contained in Tests.c. Every unit test node added to TestDt.dts must be declared in the TestDescs[] array.