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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi124@gmail.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] kvm tools: add virtio console support v2
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 08:50:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9D509D.3010903@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302228309-6583-3-git-send-email-asias.hejun@gmail.com>

Hi Asias,

On 4/8/11 5:05 AM, Asias He wrote:
> - Consolidate all console related code to term.c
> - Use timer based approach instead of thread to deal with user input
> - Introduce --enable-virtio-console option, this option disables
>    serial console output
>
> NOTE:
> Please add something like this:
> T2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L hvc0 9600 vt100
> to your /etc/inittab file to get a virtio console login.
>
> Signed-off-by: Asias He<asias.hejun@gmail.com>
> ---
>   tools/kvm/8250-serial.c                |   40 +-----
>   tools/kvm/Makefile                     |    2 +
>   tools/kvm/console-virtio.c             |  218 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   tools/kvm/include/kvm/8250-serial.h    |    2 +-
>   tools/kvm/include/kvm/console-virtio.h |    9 ++
>   tools/kvm/include/kvm/term.h           |   17 +++
>   tools/kvm/main.c                       |   48 ++-----
>   tools/kvm/term.c                       |   89 +++++++++++++

Is it too much trouble to ask you to split this patch into two: (1) the 
term.c refactoring and (2) virtio console implementation? That would 
make the series much easier to review.

                 Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-07  5:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-08  2:05 [PATCH 1/3] kvm tools: define marcros for virtio device io space size and pci device number Asias He
2011-04-07  3:56 ` David Ahern
2011-04-07  4:40   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-07  7:38     ` Avi Kivity
2011-04-08  2:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] kvm tools: add some helper functions for virt_queue Asias He
2011-04-08  2:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] kvm tools: add virtio console support v2 Asias He
2011-04-07  5:50   ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2011-04-08 14:18     ` Asias He

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