On 19 April 2013 15:00, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 19 April 2013 10:27, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:25:35AM +0100, Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar wrote: >>> I am not against using 8250 emulation (as far as it solves printk >>> issues for kernel booting logs), but my point is why not to add early >>> read-write support for virtio console, which also can be useful in >>> emulation less mach-virt environment also ? >> >> We can have both, but only one of those requires a change to the virtio >> specification. > > I don't think avoiding writing a spec is necessarily a good reason > for insisting on emulation of a lump of hardware 95% of whose > capabilities you aren't going to use... True. Also 8250 will require emulation of registers, and i am not sure about if mach-virt will have any emulation of real hw ? Thanks, Pranav > > -- PMM _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/kvmarm
