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From: peter.maydell@linaro.org (Peter Maydell)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Early printk support for virtio console devices.
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:33:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA_xmrHTvR7FxUr3PCKBJY-hZnkeBcqyHksTB4-hqOZS0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BA2076A6-0688-4E5C-85F9-A9CA8FD75782@suse.de>

On 26 April 2013 12:19, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
> MMIO registers are handled by a different layer than the virtio
> console itself. After the virtio refactoring in QEMU, they will
> be completely separate drivers.

Good point -- we don't really want to be mixing up the
transport and the backend. You can see it in the kvmtool
patch, in fact -- it introduces an "if this is virtio-console"
special case into the mmio.c file which previously was
entirely backend agnostic.

thanks
-- PMM

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-26 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-26 11:04 [PATCH 0/2] Early printk support for virtio console devices Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-26 11:04 ` [PATCH 1/2] virtio: console: Add early writeonly register to config space Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-29  3:10   ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-26 11:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm64: earlyprintk support for virtio-mmio console Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-26 11:19 ` [PATCH 0/2] Early printk support for virtio console devices Alexander Graf
2013-04-26 11:33   ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2013-04-26 12:06     ` Anup Patel
2013-04-26 12:33       ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-26 12:59         ` Anup Patel
2013-04-26 15:03           ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-04-26 15:54             ` Marc Zyngier
2013-04-26 15:19         ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-29  3:09   ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-29 12:22     ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-29 12:48       ` Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-29 12:53         ` Alexander Graf
2013-05-01  2:07           ` Rusty Russell
2013-05-01  6:53             ` Anup Patel
2013-05-01 14:46               ` Will Deacon
2013-05-02 10:06             ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-06  5:11               ` Rusty Russell
2013-05-06  9:14                 ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-07  4:46                   ` Rusty Russell
2013-05-07 12:19                     ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-07 15:52                       ` Christopher Covington
2013-05-07 15:58                         ` Peter Maydell
2013-05-08 14:17                           ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-09 10:39                             ` Grant Likely
2013-05-06  9:40                 ` Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-29 12:50       ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-29 12:53         ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-30  0:32       ` Rusty Russell
2013-05-01  0:26         ` Alexander Graf
2013-05-01  5:01           ` Anup Patel

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