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
next prev 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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