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+// Copyright 2022, The Android Open Source Project
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+//! Minimal driver for an 8250 UART. This only implements enough to work with the emulated 8250
+//! provided by crosvm, and won't work with real hardware.
+
+use core::fmt::{self, Write};
+use core::ptr::write_volatile;
+
+/// Minimal driver for an 8250 UART. This only implements enough to work with the emulated 8250
+/// provided by crosvm, and won't work with real hardware.
+pub struct Uart {
+    base_address: *mut u8,
+}
+
+impl Uart {
+    /// Constructs a new instance of the UART driver for a device at the given base address.
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// The given base address must point to the 8 MMIO control registers of an appropriate UART
+    /// device, which must be mapped into the address space of the process as device memory and not
+    /// have any other aliases.
+    pub unsafe fn new(base_address: usize) -> Self {
+        Self { base_address: base_address as *mut u8 }
+    }
+
+    /// Writes a single byte to the UART.
+    pub fn write_byte(&self, byte: u8) {
+        // Safe because we know that the base address points to the control registers of an UART
+        // device which is appropriately mapped.
+        unsafe {
+            write_volatile(self.base_address, byte);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Write for Uart {
+    fn write_str(&mut self, s: &str) -> fmt::Result {
+        for c in s.as_bytes() {
+            self.write_byte(*c);
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
+
+// Safe because it just contains a pointer to device memory, which can be accessed from any context.
+unsafe impl Send for Uart {}