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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:08:33 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-arm] more serial ports on arm?
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To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, qemu-arm <qemu-arm@nongnu.org>

On 19 November 2018 at 23:46, Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I sort of lost track of the discussion, but what ever happened to
> adding an extra serial port to the arm virt machine? I'm still
> carrying around the attached patch to run build.wireguard.com and I'd
> of course like to see a real solution upstream.

It's still stuck, because unconditionally adding a second serial
port to the virt board breaks some commonly used existing guest
code (UEFI + Linux), and it's not clear to me what the best
command line UI is for allowing the user to request the second
serial port.

thanks
-- PMM