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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Why is virtio_console not a tty?
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:36:10 +0930
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 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?

Not that I know.  I tacked it into hvc_console which provided the glue
to make it a console.  Avoided me digging into console implementation,
which is pretty horrible.

Given my ignorance, how much change do we need to make it behave like a
TTY?

Cheers,
Rusty.