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From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Wolfgang Mauerer <wolfgang.mauerer@siemens.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>,
	paul@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Realview/Versatile: Export LED state
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:23:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F02E67.4080804@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-TC1FMQ96QrbS2f9K4yytgHa-GD-yDc1w35gpDJy7oNQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am 11.01.2013 16:00, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 11 January 2013 13:42, Wolfgang Mauerer <wolfgang.mauerer@siemens.com> wrote:
>> The configuration register for the onboard LEDs is
>> emulated, but the state is not exported, which makes
>> the feature not particularly useful. Create a character
>> device to make status changes accessible to the host.
>>
>> For example, use the command line argument
>>
>> -chardev socket,id=leds,host=localhost,port=12345,server,nowait
>>
>> to observe status changes via a socket.
> 
> This isn't the only board we emulate which has LEDs. I'd
> rather see this problem tackled with a general plan for "this
> is how we handle LEDs in QEMU boards" rather than a
> versatile board specific patch.

Hm, mips_malta.c does use a CharDriverState... just a more "structured"
one using ASCII art.

Andreas

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-11 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-11 13:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Realview/Versatile: Export LED state Wolfgang Mauerer
2013-01-11 14:58 ` Andreas Färber
2013-01-11 15:46   ` Wolfgang Mauerer
2013-01-11 15:00 ` Peter Maydell
2013-01-11 15:23   ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2013-01-11 15:44     ` Wolfgang Mauerer
2013-01-11 20:22       ` Luiz Capitulino

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