From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60432) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz9Wd-0005TO-Lo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:35:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz9WU-0004cP-1M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:35:47 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::233]:45238) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz9WT-0004bx-Pp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:35:37 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f179.google.com with SMTP id ex7so408735wid.0 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:35:37 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <5489F203.8050809@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:35:31 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5489B090.4090500@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Serial: possible hang during intensive interaction over the console List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Peter Crosthwaite , Andrey Korolyov , Kirill Batuzov , Markus Armbruster , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" On 11/12/2014 16:06, Peter Maydell wrote: > An abstraction of that from the specifics of the PC's serial port > might be nice, yes. (omap_uart.c has to jump through some ugly hoops > currently, with more ugliness in the out-of-tree omap3 extensions.) > However I don't think it makes sense to force all serial port > device models to go through it -- not all the world is a 16550A > and some UARTs simply are different. No, definitely not. There's still qemu-char, this would just be an abstraction providing useful stuff like baud rates and flow control. Paolo