On Wed, 26 Feb 2014, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 26 February 2014 23:08, Rob Herring <robherring2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> What does the 8250 have to recommend it over just providing > >> the PL011? > > > > As I mentioned, it will just work for anything that expects the serial > > port to be ttyS0 as on x86 rather than ttyAMA0. > > This doesn't seem very compelling to me. Either userspace > should just be fixed or the kernel should implement a namespace > for serial ports which doesn't randomly change just because the > particular h/w driver doing the implementation is different. > We shouldn't be papering over other peoples' problems in the VM > spec IMHO. Indeed. This is already causing us trouble in other contexts. Please have a look at this patch for a solution: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.samsung-soc/27222 Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
