From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LBH7S-0003Fv-4J for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:08:26 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LBH7P-0003FP-Jk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:08:25 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52740 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LBH7P-0003FM-HL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:08:23 -0500 Received: from mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.49]:47075) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LBH7O-00019t-Vs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:08:23 -0500 Received: from aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20081212230822.UXIO1691.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:08:22 +0000 Received: from miranda.arrow ([213.107.23.205]) by aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vG.2.02.00.01 201-2161-120-102-20060912) with ESMTP id <20081212230822.ZRRI19264.aamtaout01-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@miranda.arrow> for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:08:22 +0000 Received: from sdb by miranda.arrow with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LBH92-0002SD-5D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:10:04 +0000 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:10:03 +0000 From: Stuart Brady Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] 2nd serial port by default Message-ID: <20081212231003.GA9384@miranda.arrow> References: <493C3A84.2060807@reactos.org> <200812081226.40842.paul@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200812081226.40842.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:26:40PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote: > In practice I'd expect that by far the most common use for serial ports is a > serial console, and one is more than sufficient for that. If you want to do > anything else then you're probably going to need special -serial options > anyway. The issue here is that the MIPS Magnum has two serial ports, and its firmware checks that both serial ports are functioning and complains if either of them is not. If the user only needs a single serial port, then they currently have to pass '-serial null' for the second port. IMO, the default number of ports that are emulated should depend on the machine that is being emulated. Cheers, -- Stuart Brady