On 14 August 2012 19:53, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> Forget about !x86 platforms.  They have their own way to do this sort of
> thing.  Think of this feature like a status LED on a motherboard.  These
> are very common and usually controlled by IO ports.

Please don't forget !x86 platforms, we are cute and loveable really :-)

> We're simply reserving a "status LED" for the guest to indicate that it
> has paniced.  Let's not over engineer this.

...not that QEMU actually has any kind of "front panel lights and switches"
interface at all, it might be nice to have one. I bet a lot of the embedded
boards have function DIP switches, heartbeat LEDs, etc etc...

-- PMM
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to