From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:09:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906231409.41428.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090623130023.GA32110@amit-x200.redhat.com>
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Tue) Jun 23 2009 [13:55:52], Paul Brook wrote:
> > > Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu
> > > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel.
> >
> > So I'll ask again. Why is this separate from virtio-console?
>
> I'm basically writing a vmchannel and found out that a lot can be shared
> between some virtio devices. So I'm just trying to abstract out those
> things in virtio-serial. Once we're sure virtio-serial is good and ready
> to be merged, I will look at converting over virtio-console to the
> virtio-serial interface.
That doesn't really answer my question. We already have a virtual serial
device (called virtio-console). Why are you inventing another one?
Paul
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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:09:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906231409.41428.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090623130023.GA32110@amit-x200.redhat.com>
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Tue) Jun 23 2009 [13:55:52], Paul Brook wrote:
> > > Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu
> > > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel.
> >
> > So I'll ask again. Why is this separate from virtio-console?
>
> I'm basically writing a vmchannel and found out that a lot can be shared
> between some virtio devices. So I'm just trying to abstract out those
> things in virtio-serial. Once we're sure virtio-serial is good and ready
> to be merged, I will look at converting over virtio-console to the
> virtio-serial interface.
That doesn't really answer my question. We already have a virtual serial
device (called virtio-console). Why are you inventing another one?
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-23 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-23 12:42 virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` [PATCH] virtio_serial: A char device for simple guest <-> host communication Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` [PATCH] virtio-serial: virtio device for simple host <-> guest communication Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-06-23 15:19 ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 15:19 ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 15:19 ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 15:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio_serial: A char device for simple guest <-> host communication Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 15:15 ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 15:15 ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-23 12:42 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-23 12:55 ` [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication Paul Brook
2009-06-23 12:55 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 12:55 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 13:00 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-23 13:00 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-23 13:00 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-23 13:09 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-06-23 13:09 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 13:09 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 13:58 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 13:58 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 13:58 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 14:16 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 14:16 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 14:16 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-23 14:40 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 14:40 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 14:40 ` Christian Bornträger
2009-06-23 14:59 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-06-24 4:15 ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-24 4:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Rusty Russell
2009-06-24 12:39 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 12:39 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 12:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-06-25 11:33 ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-25 11:33 ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-25 11:33 ` [Qemu-devel] " Rusty Russell
2009-06-25 20:49 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-25 20:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-06-24 4:15 ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-24 16:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2009-06-24 17:10 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 17:10 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 17:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-24 17:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-24 18:01 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 18:01 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 18:01 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 19:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-24 19:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-24 19:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-25 4:41 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-25 4:41 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-25 4:41 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 17:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-24 17:10 ` Amit Shah
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