From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: more about serial ports: do they even work? Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:56:59 +0300 Message-ID: <4989585B.8060905@msgid.tls.msk.ru> References: <497E1B15.2090908@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <497E1F7D.90300@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <49876547.1080904@cisco.com> <49876678.4090808@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4987674E.9050201@cisco.com> <4987FCBA.7020104@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4988032A.5010905@ntlworld.com> <20090204080942.GA3640@amt.cnet> <498953BA.7060407@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <20090204085242.GA4378@amt.cnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Marshall , Stefano Stabellini , "David S. Ahern" , KVM list , qemu-devel@nongnu.org To: Marcelo Tosatti Return-path: Received: from isrv.corpit.ru ([81.13.33.159]:55792 "EHLO isrv.corpit.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751791AbZBDI5C (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 03:57:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090204085242.GA4378@amt.cnet> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: [] >> Other than that, an.. excellent idea, I wanted to propose >> just that when I first saw all this stuff, but was somewhat >> afraid. And I *think* there's at least *some* sense. Qemu >> is a CPU emulator and may work on another arch where those >> bits are defined differently. Maybe that was the reason for >> all this converting - to be safe than sorry, so to say. No? > > Probably, yes. It's a question for qemu folks. > Does it work for you? Sure it does, since I only use it with kvm with the same arch in guest and host, even with the same operating system. Wug. So much for so tiny issue.... Well, I'd not call non-working serial port a "tiny issue". Oh well. /mjt