From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Why is virtio_console not a tty?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 18:26:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <539A535D.6040000@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877g4lpqil.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
On 06/12/2014 06:06 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>> I have gotten scattered reports of strange problems caused by the fact
>> that virtio_console doesn't behave like a normal tty (support termios
>> and so on.) This seems to be an odd restriction -- is there any
>> fundamental reason for this design choice?
>
> Not that I know. I tacked it into hvc_console which provided the glue
> to make it a console. Avoided me digging into console implementation,
> which is pretty horrible.
>
> Given my ignorance, how much change do we need to make it behave like a
> TTY?
>
hvc_console.c seems to set up a tty subsystem, so that is really
confusing...
-hpa
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2014-06-12 19:32 Why is virtio_console not a tty? H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-13 1:06 ` Rusty Russell
2014-06-13 1:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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