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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-serial: PCI device for simple host
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:40:14 +0100
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Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>

> 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