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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
	"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-serial: PCI device for simple host <-> guest communication
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:40:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906100040.15884.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2EB079.6020909@codemonkey.ws>

> Plus, having a virtio serial device and a virtio console seems
> unfortunate to me.  Anyway we can unify the two?  Maybe make virtio
> serial support hvc with a feature flag or something instead of ttyS?

I agree. virtio-console and virtio-serial seem to be duplicating the exact 
same functionality. If you really are that short of PCI devices then I suggest 
you enhance virtio-console to support multiple channels.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-09 16:42 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-serial device Amit Shah
2009-06-09 16:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pci: add define for communication class devices Amit Shah
2009-06-09 16:42   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: add virtserial char drv init hacks Amit Shah
2009-06-09 16:42     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-serial: PCI device for simple host <-> guest communication Amit Shah
2009-06-09 17:15       ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-06-09 18:15         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-06-09 19:19           ` Jan Kiszka
2009-06-09 18:17       ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard W.M. Jones
2009-06-09 18:47         ` Stuart Brady
2009-06-09 18:56         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-09 23:40           ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-06-10 10:31           ` Amit Shah
2009-06-10 18:00             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-11  4:31               ` Amit Shah
2009-06-12  1:56                 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-11 13:51           ` Amit Shah
2009-06-11 16:07             ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-11 16:21               ` Amit Shah
2009-06-10 10:28         ` Amit Shah

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