sandbox: Allow reading/writing of RAM buffer

[karo-tx-uboot.git] / include / os.h

diff --git a/include/os.h b/include/os.h
index 950433daa32dbabce603e3a4941d142162e5506b..b65fba430144d2587c068756fd8bfbd001799354 100644 (file)
--- a/include/os.h
+++ b/include/os.h
@@ -106,6 +106,35 @@ void os_tty_raw(int fd);
  */
 void *os_malloc(size_t length);
 
+/**
+ * Free memory previous allocated with os_malloc()/os_realloc()
+ *
+ * This returns the memory to the OS.
+ *
+ * \param ptr          Pointer to memory block to free
+ */
+void *os_free(void *ptr);
+
+/**
+ * Reallocate previously-allocated memory to increase/decrease space
+ *
+ * This works in a similar way to the C library realloc() function. If
+ * length is 0, then ptr is freed. Otherwise the space used by ptr is
+ * expanded or reduced depending on whether length is larger or smaller
+ * than before.
+ *
+ * If ptr is NULL, then this is similar to calling os_malloc().
+ *
+ * This function may need to move the memory block to make room for any
+ * extra space, in which case the new pointer is returned.
+ *
+ * \param ptr          Pointer to memory block to reallocate
+ * \param length       New length for memory block
+ * \return pointer to new memory block, or NULL on failure or if length
+ *     is 0.
+ */
+void *os_realloc(void *ptr, size_t length);
+
 /**
  * Access to the usleep function of the os
  *
@@ -180,4 +209,40 @@ const char *os_dirent_get_typename(enum os_dirent_t type);
  */
 ssize_t os_get_filesize(const char *fname);
 
+/**
+ * Write a character to the controlling OS terminal
+ *
+ * This bypasses the U-Boot console support and writes directly to the OS
+ * stdout file descriptor.
+ *
+ * @param ch   Character to write
+ */
+void os_putc(int ch);
+
+/**
+ * Write a string to the controlling OS terminal
+ *
+ * This bypasses the U-Boot console support and writes directly to the OS
+ * stdout file descriptor.
+ *
+ * @param str  String to write (note that \n is not appended)
+ */
+void os_puts(const char *str);
+
+/**
+ * Write the sandbox RAM buffer to a existing file
+ *
+ * @param fname                Filename to write memory to (simple binary format)
+ * @return 0 if OK, -ve on error
+ */
+int os_write_ram_buf(const char *fname);
+
+/**
+ * Read the sandbox RAM buffer from an existing file
+ *
+ * @param fname                Filename containing memory (simple binary format)
+ * @return 0 if OK, -ve on error
+ */
+int os_read_ram_buf(const char *fname);
+
 #endif