From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCfI4-00029l-IB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:13:40 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCfI1-000284-0M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:13:40 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35101 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCfI0-000280-Op for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:13:36 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:56848) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NCfI0-00023c-0c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:13:36 -0500 Message-ID: <4B0AEC8A.1020905@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:11:54 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] debugcon: support for debugging consoles (e.g. Bochs port 0xe9) References: <1258752795-15434-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> <4B0A6973.4010303@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4B0A6973.4010303@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 11/23/2009 02:52 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > All not needed. Simply registering as qdev device is enougth. You can > then add a debug port like this, without adding new cmd line options: > > -chardev vc,id=debug -device isa-debugcon,chardev=debug > > Adding a second one on a non-default port works this way: > > -chardev vc,id=d2 -device isa-debugcon,iobase=0xea,chardev=d2 > Sure, but is that user friendly? -hpa