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From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC] arm64: Early printk support for virtio-mmio console devices.
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:51:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b67c5c681ce96942c3cc3bd05b8c80d2@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-38=zx-s3NaBAu-yvDNRbt=KcTs-3c1QJR3COB3G1n2A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:30:52 +0100, Peter Maydell
<peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 18 April 2013 07:49, Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org> wrote:
>> If you need an early console, why not simply wire the 8250 emulation in
>> kvmtool to be useable from the MMIO bus? I reckon this would solve your
>> problem in a more elegant way...
> 
> The other approach I thought of would be something involving
> defining a hypercall interface for console I/O, in the same
> way that we have hypercalls for "start cpu"/"stop cpu"/etc.
> Is there any mileage in considering that approach, or is it
> a non-starter?

That's always possible, but that becomes architecture dependent, which
means code duplication across architectures. I'd rather use the MMIO
infrastructure, which has some commonalities across the board.

        M.
-- 
Fast, cheap, reliable. Pick two.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-04-18  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-18  5:52 [RFC] arm64: Early printk support for virtio-mmio console devices PranavkumarSawargaonkar
2013-04-18  6:49 ` Marc Zyngier
2013-04-18  7:24   ` Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
     [not found]   ` <CAAHg+HhajHFC=1nh6YQNgpf=Na2FqcsYJ=t+ag9QiTg6TxUz9w@mail.gmail.com>
2013-04-18  7:36     ` Marc Zyngier
2013-04-18  8:48       ` Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-18  8:53         ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-19  9:05         ` Will Deacon
2013-04-19  9:25           ` Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-19  9:27             ` Will Deacon
2013-04-19  9:30               ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-19  9:34                 ` Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-19  9:39                   ` Will Deacon
2013-04-19 10:05                     ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-19 16:12                       ` Catalin Marinas
2013-04-19 16:14                         ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-19 16:22                           ` Catalin Marinas
2013-04-19 16:33                             ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-19 17:14                               ` Catalin Marinas
2013-04-19 17:40                                 ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-19  9:36                 ` Will Deacon
2013-04-18 19:06       ` Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-18  8:30   ` Peter Maydell
2013-04-18  8:51     ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-18  8:51     ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2013-04-18  6:51 ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-18  7:32   ` Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-18  8:44     ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-18  8:55       ` Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-18 10:01     ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-04-22  1:21     ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-22  3:10       ` Anup Patel
2013-04-22  5:15         ` Rusty Russell
2013-04-23  5:53           ` Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar
2013-04-22 14:50         ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-18 15:25 ` Christopher Covington
2013-04-18 15:59   ` Marc Zyngier
2013-04-18 18:59     ` Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar

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