On 11/12/2014 16:06, Peter Maydell wrote: > An abstraction of that from the specifics of the PC's serial port > might be nice, yes. (omap_uart.c has to jump through some ugly hoops > currently, with more ugliness in the out-of-tree omap3 extensions.) > However I don't think it makes sense to force all serial port > device models to go through it -- not all the world is a 16550A > and some UARTs simply are different.
No, definitely not. There's still qemu-char, this would just be an abstraction providing useful stuff like baud rates and flow control. Paolo