Re: [PATCH 1/1] hw/arm/aspeed: Allow machine to set serial_hd(0)

[Patrick Williams]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 04:31:40PM -0700, pdel@fb.com wrote:
> From: Peter Delevoryas <pdel@fb.com>
> 
> When you run QEMU with an Aspeed machine and a single serial device
> using stdio like this:
> 
>     qemu -machine ast2600-evb -drive ... -serial stdio
> 
> The guest OS can read and write to the UART5 registers at 0x1E784000 and
> it will receive from stdin and write to stdout. The Aspeed SoC's have a
> lot more UART's though (AST2500 has 5, AST2600 has 13) and depending on
> the board design, may be using any of them as the serial console. (See
> "stdout-path" in a DTS to check which one is chosen).
> 
> Most boards, including all of those currently defined in
> hw/arm/aspeed.c, just use UART5, but some use UART1. This change adds
> some flexibility for different boards without requiring users to change
> their command-line invocation of QEMU.
> 
> I tested this doesn't break existing code by booting an AST2500 OpenBMC
> image and an AST2600 OpenBMC image, each using UART5 as the console.
> 
> Then I tested switching the default to UART1 and booting an AST2600
> OpenBMC image that uses UART1, and that worked too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Delevoryas <pdel@fb.com>
> ---
>  hw/arm/aspeed.c         |  1 +
>  hw/arm/aspeed_ast2600.c | 11 +++++++----
>  hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c     |  9 ++++++---
>  include/hw/arm/aspeed.h |  1 +
>  4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz>

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Patrick Williams

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