On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 02:07:05 am Anthony Liguori wrote: > Amit Shah wrote: > Functionally speaking, both virtio-console and virtio-serial do the same > thing. In fact, virtio-console is just a subset of virtio-serial. > > If there are problems converging the two drivers in Linux, then I > suggest you have two separate driver modules in Linux. That would > obviously be rejected for Linux though because you cannot have two > drivers for the same device. Why should qemu have a different policy? I've been on leave, cheerfully not thinking about this. AFAICT, a console and serial are very similar, so it makes sense to merge them. But a serial port doesn't have framing either; if it does, it's something else. And generally using virtio framing in upper layers is a mistake (one we've made in the qemu implementations, but that's unfortunate). Thanks, Rusty. -- 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
