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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:48:00 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Oh, that's bad :-)
>>
>> That should really be it's own character device.  We don't really have a way to connect two character devices like that.  
>> Maybe muxing?
>>     
>
> So you want me to implement char muxing and a bootloader within a week? :)
>   

Char muxing is already there.

Don't know what to do about the bootloader bit.  At this point, I'm 
curious about whether kboot would be a viable solution.

> Alex

Regards,

Anthony Liguori