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From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-serial: PCI device for simple host <-> guest communication
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:01:15 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090610103115.GB12327@amit-x200.pnq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2EB079.6020909@codemonkey.ws>

On (Tue) Jun 09 2009 [13:56:57], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:12:48PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> Are you going to post the virtio driver for the Linux kernel later?
>>   
>
> Yeah, I'd like to see the Linux driver before drawing conclusions.

OK; will send in a while.

> 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?

Yes, it's possible. I'll look into that once I reach a point where
virtio-serial is ready to be merged. I'll also have to look at making
sure existing guest kernels work with the new, unified device.

		Amit

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-10 10:31 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
2009-06-10 10:31           ` Amit Shah [this message]
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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