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= PXI Services = | = PXI Services = | ||
The 'pxi' sysmodule contains the following services: | The 'pxi' sysmodule contains the following services: | ||
| − | *PxiFS0 | + | *[[Filesystem services PXI|PxiFS0]] |
| − | *PxiFS1 | + | *[[Filesystem services PXI|PxiFS1]] |
| − | *PxiFSB | + | *[[Filesystem services PXI|PxiFSB]] |
| − | *PxiFSR | + | *[[Filesystem services PXI|PxiFSR]] |
| − | *PxiPM | + | *[[Process Manager Services PXI|PxiPM]] |
| − | *pxi:am9 | + | *[[Application Manager Services PXI|pxi:am9]] |
| − | *pxi:dev | + | *[[Gamecard Services PXI|pxi:dev]] |
| − | *pxi:mc | + | *[[Development Services PXI|pxi:mc]] |
| − | *pxi: | + | *[[Process Services PXI|pxi:ps9]] |
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| + | Each of these services has up to 4 static IPC buffers of size 0x1000. When any of these service ports are sync:d, the IPC cmdbuf (TLS+0x80+) is sent over [[PXI_Registers|PXI]] to the ARM9. | ||
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| + | Each PXI service can only have one session open for it at a time. | ||
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| + | = Protocol = | ||
| + | The communication protocol for normal PXI commands is documented below. The size of cmd_buf is calculated from the cmd_hdr. With newer FIRM the total size for command header + buffer must be at most 0x40 words, otherwise Process9 will panic. | ||
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| + | The PXI protocol is bidirectional - both processors can host a PXI service for a given pxi_id. In practice, Process9 hosts all but one of the services (pxi_11 is hosted by pxi-module instead). Each pxi_id corresponds to a PXI command-handler(called from threads) which handles the actual command processing. With newer FIRM the pxi_id must be in a certain range. | ||
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| + | There's a dedicated Process9 thread for receiving data from PXI(in newer FIRM this is the main-thread), once it finishes receiving a request it copies the cmd_buf into a buffer for the corresponding pxi_id then signals an event so that the cmd-handler thread can process it. Once a cmd-handler thread finishes processing a command, the thread itself then sends the response over PXI. This means that multiple commands for different pxiIDs can be be handled at the same time, even when one cmd-handler completely hangs/etc for example. | ||
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| + | Process9 will execute [[SVC|svcBreak]] when it receives a PXI command with a pxi_id where another command with that same pxi_id is still being processed by the command-handler(this won't happen with commands sent by the ARM11 PXI-module, since it waits for the command reply before sending another command request for that same pxi_id). | ||
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| + | =PXI service "pxi_11"= | ||
| + | {| class="wikitable" border="1" | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | ! Command Header | ||
| + | ! Description | ||
| + | |- | ||
| + | | 0x00010040 | ||
| + | | PublishToSubscriber - this exposes [[Services|"srv:" notifications]] to the Process9-side using [[SRV:PublishToSubscriber]] (with flags=1), to allow sending card-insert notifications etc. directly to ARM11. | ||
| + | |} | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Request== | ||
| + | A11->A9 (u32) pxi_id | ||
| + | A11->A9 (u32) cmd_hdr | ||
| + | A11->A9 (u32[]) cmd_buf | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Response== | ||
| + | A9->A11 (u32) pxi_id | ||
| + | A9->A11 (u32) cmd_hdr | ||
| + | A9->A11 (u32[]) cmd_buf | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==pxi_id== | ||
| + | 0 = pxi_mc | ||
| + | 1 = pxi_fs | ||
| + | 2 = pxi_fs | ||
| + | 3 = pxi_fs | ||
| + | 4 = pxi_fs | ||
| + | 5 = pxi_pm | ||
| + | 6 = pxi_dev | ||
| + | 7 = pxi_am | ||
| + | 8 = pxi_ps | ||
| + | 9 = pxi_11 | ||
Latest revision as of 19:42, 18 August 2016
PXI Services[edit]
The 'pxi' sysmodule contains the following services:
Each of these services has up to 4 static IPC buffers of size 0x1000. When any of these service ports are sync:d, the IPC cmdbuf (TLS+0x80+) is sent over PXI to the ARM9.
Each PXI service can only have one session open for it at a time.
Protocol[edit]
The communication protocol for normal PXI commands is documented below. The size of cmd_buf is calculated from the cmd_hdr. With newer FIRM the total size for command header + buffer must be at most 0x40 words, otherwise Process9 will panic.
The PXI protocol is bidirectional - both processors can host a PXI service for a given pxi_id. In practice, Process9 hosts all but one of the services (pxi_11 is hosted by pxi-module instead). Each pxi_id corresponds to a PXI command-handler(called from threads) which handles the actual command processing. With newer FIRM the pxi_id must be in a certain range.
There's a dedicated Process9 thread for receiving data from PXI(in newer FIRM this is the main-thread), once it finishes receiving a request it copies the cmd_buf into a buffer for the corresponding pxi_id then signals an event so that the cmd-handler thread can process it. Once a cmd-handler thread finishes processing a command, the thread itself then sends the response over PXI. This means that multiple commands for different pxiIDs can be be handled at the same time, even when one cmd-handler completely hangs/etc for example.
Process9 will execute svcBreak when it receives a PXI command with a pxi_id where another command with that same pxi_id is still being processed by the command-handler(this won't happen with commands sent by the ARM11 PXI-module, since it waits for the command reply before sending another command request for that same pxi_id).
PXI service "pxi_11"[edit]
| Command Header | Description |
|---|---|
| 0x00010040 | PublishToSubscriber - this exposes "srv:" notifications to the Process9-side using SRV:PublishToSubscriber (with flags=1), to allow sending card-insert notifications etc. directly to ARM11. |
Request[edit]
A11->A9 (u32) pxi_id A11->A9 (u32) cmd_hdr A11->A9 (u32[]) cmd_buf
Response[edit]
A9->A11 (u32) pxi_id A9->A11 (u32) cmd_hdr A9->A11 (u32[]) cmd_buf
pxi_id[edit]
0 = pxi_mc 1 = pxi_fs 2 = pxi_fs 3 = pxi_fs 4 = pxi_fs 5 = pxi_pm 6 = pxi_dev 7 = pxi_am 8 = pxi_ps 9 = pxi_11