On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:30:52 +0100, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 18 April 2013 07:49, Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If you need an early console, why not simply wire the 8250 emulation in >> kvmtool to be useable from the MMIO bus? I reckon this would solve your >> problem in a more elegant way... > > The other approach I thought of would be something involving > defining a hypercall interface for console I/O, in the same > way that we have hypercalls for "start cpu"/"stop cpu"/etc. > Is there any mileage in considering that approach, or is it > a non-starter? That's always possible, but that becomes architecture dependent, which means code duplication across architectures. I'd rather use the MMIO infrastructure, which has some commonalities across the board. M. -- Fast, cheap, reliable. Pick two. _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/kvmarm