> On Feb 17, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > If your device is already present then you don't want to > try to use -device (which would be attempting to add > a second instance of it to the system).
so then, as you say, I should be using ‘-global’ somehow instead to bind it to a ‘-chardev socket’ and I don’t need to “DEFINE_PROP_CHR()” and so forth? I apparently don’t understand this as well as I thought I did.