Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] PlatBus: Add serial-platbus device

2013-07-24 Thread Peter Maydell
On 24 July 2013 21:16, Scott Wood wrote: > Plus, it's nice to have debug output from early on, rather than having to > wait until PCI is up and running. It would be nice if the device tree had bindings for "you can find your emergency serial port here"... -- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] PlatBus: Add serial-platbus device

2013-07-24 Thread Scott Wood
On 07/22/2013 01:56:32 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 22.07.2013, at 20:26, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 22 July 2013 18:50, Alexander Graf wrote: >> We want to be able to spawn a serial console on the platform bus. Create >> a small platbus wrapper device very similar to the ISA one. > > Why no

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] PlatBus: Add serial-platbus device

2013-07-22 Thread Alexander Graf
On 22.07.2013, at 20:26, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 22 July 2013 18:50, Alexander Graf wrote: >> We want to be able to spawn a serial console on the platform bus. Create >> a small platbus wrapper device very similar to the ISA one. > > Why not use virtio-console? Because eventually we want -no

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] PlatBus: Add serial-platbus device

2013-07-22 Thread Alexander Graf
We want to be able to spawn a serial console on the platform bus. Create a small platbus wrapper device very similar to the ISA one. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf --- hw/char/Makefile.objs| 1 + hw/char/serial-platbus.c | 100 +++ include

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] PlatBus: Add serial-platbus device

2013-07-22 Thread Peter Maydell
On 22 July 2013 18:50, Alexander Graf wrote: > We want to be able to spawn a serial console on the platform bus. Create > a small platbus wrapper device very similar to the ISA one. Why not use virtio-console? -- PMM