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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, su
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Alexander Graf |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports |
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Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:55:16 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) |
Amit Shah wrote:
> This patch migrates virtio-console to the qdev infrastructure and
> creates a new virtio-serial bus on which multiple ports are exposed as
> devices. The bulk of the code now resides in a new file with
> virtio-console.c being just a simple qdev device.
>
> This interface enables spawning of multiple virtio consoles as well as generic
> serial ports.
>
> The older -virtconsole argument still works, but when using the new
> functionality, it is recommended to use
>
> -device virtio-serial-pci -device virtconsole,...
>
> The virtconsole device type accepts a chardev as an argument and a 'name'
> argument to identify the corresponding consoles on the host as well as the
> guest. The name, if given, is exposed via the 'name' sysfs attribute in the
> guest.
>
> Care has been taken to ensure compatibility with kernels that do not
> support multiple ports as well as accepting incoming migrations from older
> qemu versions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <address@hidden>
>
Please split this patch. I got dizzy after only reading 1/4th of it :-).
Alex
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/3] virtio-console: Move to qdev, multiple devices, generic ports, Amit Shah, 2009/12/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: Remove duplicate macro definition for max. virtqueues, bump up the max, Amit Shah, 2009/12/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports, Amit Shah, 2009/12/22
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio-serial: Add a new virtserialport device for generic serial port support, Amit Shah, 2009/12/22
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports,
Alexander Graf <=
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports, Amit Shah, 2009/12/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports, Markus Armbruster, 2009/12/23
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports, Alexander Graf, 2009/12/22
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports, Amit Shah, 2009/12/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports, Anthony Liguori, 2009/12/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports, Markus Armbruster, 2009/12/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports, Markus Armbruster, 2009/12/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports, Amit Shah, 2009/12/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports, Markus Armbruster, 2009/12/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: Add a virtio-serial bus, support for multiple devices and ports, Amit Shah, 2009/12/23