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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Why is virtio_console not a tty?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:32:31 -0700
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I have gotten scattered reports of strange problems caused by the fact
that virtio_console doesn't behave like a normal tty (support termios
and so on.)  This seems to be an odd restriction -- is there any
fundamental reason for this design choice?

	-hpa