Re: [Qemu-devel] hw/arm: add Lego NXT board

[Alexander Graf]

On 07/15/2014 10:09 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> BTW, sorry for the confusion.  There is another frequent contributor to
> QEMU with the same name as yours.  I only noticed now that the email
> address is different.

Oh right I noticed that; should have said something.

> > 4. Now, thanks to the help on this list I know there is a the "-chardev"
> > functionality in qemu that basically archives what I did by hand using
> > pipes. Now my idea is to port my own "proprietary" implementation to
> > "the qemu way" - chardevs. You said you think it is a bad idea to build
> > a device that directly translates I/O memory access to a chardev. I
> > still don't understand why. Is this all about legal issues or is there a
> > technical reason?

> I think that there are two other ways to do it.

And what about the chardev way? Your silence in this regard is 
misterious ;-)
> 1) [...]
> 2) [...]

Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I will play a bit and come back when 
I have some code to show.

Alexander