[RFC] some semihosting interrogation

[Fred Konrad]

Hi all,

Just wonderring if there is any reason not to be able to defer
qemu_semihosting_connect_chardevs a little more to be able to specify
chardev=serial0?
Like:

diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
index 6390cf0..9fa1553 100644
--- a/softmmu/vl.c
+++ b/softmmu/vl.c
@@ -4333,8 +4333,6 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)

     qemu_opts_foreach(qemu_find_opts("chardev"),
                       chardev_init_func, NULL, &error_fatal);
-    /* now chardevs have been created we may have semihosting to connect */
-    qemu_semihosting_connect_chardevs();

 #ifdef CONFIG_VIRTFS
     qemu_opts_foreach(qemu_find_opts("fsdev"),
@@ -4484,6 +4482,9 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
     if (foreach_device_config(DEV_DEBUGCON, debugcon_parse) < 0)
         exit(1);

+    /* now chardevs have been created we may have semihosting to connect */
+    qemu_semihosting_connect_chardevs();
+
     /* If no default VGA is requested, the default is "none".  */
     if (default_vga) {
         vga_model = get_default_vga_model(machine_class);

Also I found out that the trailing \0 is sent to the chardev 
(console.c:copy_user_string) is that expected in case of semihosting?

static GString *copy_user_string(CPUArchState *env, target_ulong addr)
{
    CPUState *cpu = env_cpu(env);
    GString *s = g_string_sized_new(128);
    uint8_t c;

    do {
        if (cpu_memory_rw_debug(cpu, addr++, &c, 1, 0) == 0) {
            if (c) {
                s = g_string_append_c(s, c);
            }
        } else {
            qemu_log_mask(LOG_GUEST_ERROR,
                          "%s: passed inaccessible address " TARGET_FMT_lx,
                          __func__, addr);
            break;
        }
    } while (c!=0);

    return s;
}

I can roll out two patches if needed..

Cheers,
Fred