|
| From: | Scott Wood |
| Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/9] PlatBus: Add serial-platbus device |
| Date: | Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:16:05 -0500 |
On 07/22/2013 01:56:32 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 22.07.2013, at 20:26, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 22 July 2013 18:50, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:>> We want to be able to spawn a serial console on the platform bus. Create>> a small platbus wrapper device very similar to the ISA one. > > Why not use virtio-console?Because eventually we want -nodefaults not generate any UARTs and only create them through -device. Guests expect /dev/ttySx device nodes for their serial ports.
Plus, it's nice to have debug output from early on, rather than having to wait until PCI is up and running.
-Scott
| [Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |