From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Borntraeger Subject: Re: [PATCH] VirtioConsole support. Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:38:15 +0100 Message-ID: <4EB28B37.8030301@de.ibm.com> References: <20111027173527.GA23839@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1319751802-27013-1-git-send-email-miche@google.com> <1319770558.2529.20.camel@Joe-Laptop> <4EAAF23C.8050102@codeaurora.org> <87k47itc7u.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87k47itc7u.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Rusty Russell Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Stephen Boyd , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Miche Baker-Harvey , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Amit Shah , Hendrik Brueckner , Anton Blanchard , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Joe Perches List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On 02/11/11 23:02, Rusty Russell wrote: > Ben, Christian, can you figure out what's going on? Is it time for a > complete rewrite? You are talking about hvc console? Yes it has so many users that it is now something like a console/tty layer extension, but it was never designed to be one. I think the hardest part would be to get all users together (for testing and requirements) and then to find someone that is actually doing that rework. Dont know if the pain level is already that high? Christian