Effectively the only way to recover from errors in the communication
with pcid is by restarting the driver from scratch possibly after
restarting pcid. As such moving the aborts from individual drivers to
pcid_interface simplifies drivers while at the same time allowing nicer
error messages.
This allows a single PCI daemon to run on the whole system, prevents
multiple drivers from claiming the same PCI device and makes it possible
for userspace to enumerate all available PCI devices. In the future this
will enable an lspci tool, possibly PCIe hot plugging and more.
Co-Authored-By: 4lDO2 <4lDO2@protonmail.com>
This will allow serializing/deserializing to be shared across programs.
For pcid-spawner will need to parse the config files and if we want to
embed config files into the driver executables at some point it may also
be useful.
Currently pcid exits the main thread once it is done spawning drivers
and expects all background threads handling driver communication to stay
around. This only works as exitting the main thread on redox os
currently doesn't cause the whole process to die. This will have to be
fixed at some point for compatibility with programs that expect that
exitting the main thread kills all other threads in the process, at
which point pcid would break without the changes in this commit.
Devices should never change the feature status behind the back of the
driver, so storing the current status after setting it is fine. Drivers
should reset all state when they start to recover from a crashed driver,
so they shouldn't need to get the current feature status at startup
either.
Most things are already stored in SubdriverArguments and the couple of
things that aren't may change over time and thus should be read again
each time they are accessed, while fetch_header would receive a fixed
copy from pcid.
This commit adds the `get_capabilities` function to `PcidServerHandle`
which returns all of the `Capability`s (raw representation) of the PCI
device.
Signed-off-by: Anhad Singh <andypython@protonmail.com>
bjorn3