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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] debugcon: support for debugging consoles
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 11/23/2009 12:11 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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?
> 

Question still stands... if this is The Way It Is Done, then I'll do it
that way, but I will personally never be able to remember to type the
above stuff without looking it up every time, whereas "-debugcon stdio"
is something I can remember in my sleep.

	-hpa