Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Port E9 hack, for debugging purposes

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

There are already similar debug features in hw/pc.c for the Bochs BIOS, 
but they are not enabled by default because I consider there were useful 
only in rare cases.

I would accept the "e9 hack" only if it was dynamically configurable and 
if it used a generic character device (as the serial or parallel ports) 
to output its results. The command line option should be '-port-e9 
stdio' or something similar.

Fabrice.

Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Johannes Schindelin a écrit :
> 
>> I like it. It's simple and elegant, and your patch seems correct to me.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> After sending the patch, I thought that maybe it would be better to 
> transform the configure time option to enable/disable the port E9 hack 
> into a runtime option.
> 
> Currently, devices are not enabled/disabled through compile time 
> options, but through runtime options. Doing it the same way for port E9 
> hack may be more coherent.
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
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