From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V25Tx-0003B0-Ea for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:16:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V25Tu-0000zu-M5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:16:21 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:16:05 -0500 From: Scott Wood References: <1374515411-43818-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <1374515411-43818-7-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <294CF158-98CB-4B21-AA96-43A6315F2659@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <294CF158-98CB-4B21-AA96-43A6315F2659@suse.de> (from agraf@suse.de on Mon Jul 22 13:56:32 2013) Message-ID: <1374696965.15592.66@snotra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; delsp=Yes; format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] PlatBus: Add serial-platbus device List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: Peter Maydell , "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org list:PowerPC" , qemu-devel Developers On 07/22/2013 01:56:32 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >=20 > On 22.07.2013, at 20:26, Peter Maydell wrote: >=20 > > On 22 July 2013 18:50, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> We want to be able to spawn a serial console on the platform bus. =20 > Create > >> a small platbus wrapper device very similar to the ISA one. > > > > Why not use virtio-console? >=20 > Because eventually we want -nodefaults not generate any UARTs and =20 > only create them through -device. Guests expect /dev/ttySx device =20 > nodes for their serial ports. Plus, it's nice to have debug output from early on, rather than having =20 to wait until PCI is up and running. -Scott=