From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-serial: PCI device for simple host <-> guest communication
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:40:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906100040.15884.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2EB079.6020909@codemonkey.ws>
> Plus, having a virtio serial device and a virtio console seems
> unfortunate to me. Anyway we can unify the two? Maybe make virtio
> serial support hvc with a feature flag or something instead of ttyS?
I agree. virtio-console and virtio-serial seem to be duplicating the exact
same functionality. If you really are that short of PCI devices then I suggest
you enhance virtio-console to support multiple channels.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-09 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 16:42 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] virtio-serial device Amit Shah
2009-06-09 16:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pci: add define for communication class devices Amit Shah
2009-06-09 16:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: add virtserial char drv init hacks Amit Shah
2009-06-09 16:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-serial: PCI device for simple host <-> guest communication Amit Shah
2009-06-09 17:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-06-09 18:15 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2009-06-09 19:19 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-06-09 18:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard W.M. Jones
2009-06-09 18:47 ` Stuart Brady
2009-06-09 18:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-09 23:40 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-06-10 10:31 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-10 18:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-11 4:31 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-12 1:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-06-11 13:51 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-11 16:07 ` Blue Swirl
2009-06-11 16:21 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-10 10:28 ` Amit Shah
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