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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] virtio-serial: PCI device for simple host <-> guest communication
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:15:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2E98AD.2090904@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244565768-9103-4-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com>

Amit Shah wrote:
> This interface presents a char device from which bits can be
> sent and read.
> 
> Sample uses for such a device can be obtaining info from the
> guest like the file systems used, apps installed, etc. for
> offline usage and logged-in users, clipboard copy-paste, etc.
> for online usage.

Out of curiosity: What is the advantage over instantiating a multiport
16550A PCI card? Will those channels be so performance critical?

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-09 17:15 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       ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2009-06-09 18:15         ` [Qemu-devel] " 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
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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