vcmailbox.c

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// Utility for driving mailbox interface to VideoCore

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>		/* ioctl */

#define DEVICE_FILE_NAME "/dev/vcio"
#define MAJOR_NUM 100
#define IOCTL_MBOX_PROPERTY _IOWR(MAJOR_NUM, 0, char *)

/*
 * use ioctl to send mbox property message
 */

static int mbox_property(int file_desc, void *buf)
{
   int ret_val = ioctl(file_desc, IOCTL_MBOX_PROPERTY, buf);

   if (ret_val < 0) {
      printf("ioctl_set_msg failed:%d\n", ret_val);
   }
   return ret_val;
}


static int mbox_open()
{
   int file_desc;

   // open a char device file used for communicating with kernel mbox driver
   file_desc = open(DEVICE_FILE_NAME, 0);
   if (file_desc < 0) {
      printf("Can't open device file: %s\n", DEVICE_FILE_NAME);
      printf("Try creating a device file with: sudo mknod %s c %d 0\n", DEVICE_FILE_NAME, MAJOR_NUM);
      exit(-1);
   }
   return file_desc;
}

static void mbox_close(int file_desc) {
  close(file_desc);
}


#define MAX_WORDS 256

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int mb = mbox_open();
  unsigned words[MAX_WORDS] = {};
  int i;

  if (argc < 2 || argc+1 >= MAX_WORDS)
  {
    printf("Usage %s [word0] [word1] ...\n", argv[0]);
    return 1;
  }

  words[0] = (argc+2) * sizeof words[0];
  words[1] = 0; // process request
  for (i=1; i<argc; i++)
    words[i+1] = strtoul(argv[i], 0, 0);

  words[argc+1] = 0; // end tag

  int s = mbox_property(mb, words);

  mbox_close(mb);

  for (i=0; i<argc+2; i++)
     printf("0x%08x ", words[i]);
  printf("\n");
  return s;
}