From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJ5ea-0004DR-VN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:03:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJ5eW-00049W-C0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:03:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33857 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJ5eV-00049H-VH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:03:08 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:58201) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJ5eV-0002Hv-9l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:03:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:30:23 +0530 From: Amit Shah Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-serial: A guest <-> host interface for simple communication Message-ID: <20090623130023.GA32110@amit-x200.redhat.com> References: <1245760953-32139-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <200906231355.53557.paul@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200906231355.53557.paul@codesourcery.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org On (Tue) Jun 23 2009 [13:55:52], Paul Brook wrote: > > Here are two patches. One implements a virtio-serial device in qemu > > and the other is the driver for a guest kernel. > > So I'll ask again. Why is this separate from virtio-console? I'm basically writing a vmchannel and found out that a lot can be shared between some virtio devices. So I'm just trying to abstract out those things in virtio-serial. Once we're sure virtio-serial is good and ready to be merged, I will look at converting over virtio-console to the virtio-serial interface. Is that an acceptable approach? Thanks, Amit