From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: peter.maydell@linaro.org (Peter Maydell) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:33:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Early printk support for virtio console devices. In-Reply-To: References: <1366974299-17877-1-git-send-email-pranavkumar@linaro.org> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 26 April 2013 12:19, Alexander Graf 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