From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ME6VO-0001GV-Tr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:57:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ME6VK-0001FH-QM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:57:06 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41123 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ME6VK-0001FE-N5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:57:02 -0400 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.150]:11511) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ME6VK-0004Lm-Bg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:57:02 -0400 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so114058qwk.4 for ; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A2EB079.6020909@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:56:57 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-serial: PCI device for simple host <-> guest communication References: <1244565768-9103-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <1244565768-9103-2-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <1244565768-9103-3-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <1244565768-9103-4-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <20090609181714.GB11485@amd.home.annexia.org> In-Reply-To: <20090609181714.GB11485@amd.home.annexia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: Amit Shah , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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. 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? Regards, Anthony Liguori