On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:19:36PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 10:36 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 11:24:38AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > Should this be a <channel> at all? > > > > > > We generally use <serial> for native emulated devices such as > > > isa-serial, which isa-debugcon seems very closely related to... > > > > <channel> is aiming to expose application specific guest data channels. > > > > <serial> is aiming to expose general purpose guest data channels. > > > > To me isa-debugcon is an application specific data channels, so > > <channel> feels a better fit. > > Maybe I have misunderstood what isa-debugcon is, but it looks more > of a general purpose channel in the vein of isa-serial rather than > something application specific like the qemu-guest-agent or SPICE > channels for example. My understanding is that isa-debugcon is a special device just for usage by SeaBIOS to emit debug messages. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
