Re: [Qemu-devel] request help enabling both serial0 and parallel0 to emulate 2 distinct ports on beagle

[Gabi Voiculescu]

Can anybody tell me if I can use parallel0 and serial0 simultaneously as 
distinct input interfaces, please?

Is this allowed by the qemu design or not?

Thank you,
Gabi Voiculescu

--- On Fri, 10/8/10, Gabi Voiculescu <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Gabi Voiculescu <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Qemu-devel] request help enabling both serial0 and parallel0 to 
> emulate 2 distinct ports on beagle
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Friday, October 8, 2010, 6:59 PM
> Hi.
> 
> I am trying to emulate the Beagle platform using the
> version of qemu (meego qemu) from here (I'm currently in
> sync with commit caacc3f): 
> git://gitorious.org/qemu-maemo/qemu.git.
> 
> I'm faced with the following problem. I'm running a
> microkernel underneath Linux and when I try to use invasive
> debug at the microkernel level I can no longer enable the
> linux console on that port.
> 
> For this reason we are using 2 distinct serial ports in our
> development on real hardware.
> 
> I'm trying to replicate this in the emulator. By default I
> have keyboard into either serial0 or parallel0, depending on
> whether I make or not use of -serial stdio in the
> qemu-system-arm command.
> 
> I tried to use Ctrl-Alt-1 window (emulated tty0) as well as
> qemu serial0 console (using -serial stdio in the
> qemu-system-arm call line).
> 
> However I see emulated tty0 does not accept input from my
> keyboard once I grab mouse and keyboard in that window.
> 
> Now I'm trying to make use of both parallel0 and serial0.
> 
> I modified the qemu code like this:
> --- a/hw/beagle.c
> +++ b/hw/beagle.c
> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static void beagle_common_init(ram_addr_t
> ram_size,
>  #error MAX_SERIAL_PORTS must be at least 1!
>  #endif
> 
>      s->cpu =
> omap3_mpu_init(cpu_model, 1, ram_size,
> -               
>             NULL, NULL,
> serial_hds[0], NULL);
> +               
>             NULL,
> parallel_hds[0] , serial_hds[0], NULL);
> 
> I think I am missing something since I do not get serial
> output on parallel0 (Qemu Ctrl-Alt-2 window).
> 
> My first question: is what I want even possible (serial on
> both serial0 and parallel0)? If yes, what file should I look
> into?
> 
> Or should I consider grabbing a usb device from my host PC
> in qemu and plug in a hub or usb keyboard in there instead?
> 
> Thank you,
> Gabi Voiculescu
> 
> 
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