Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On 08/14/09 10:15, Amit Shah wrote: >> The guest code sort-of ends up looking like this after merging >> virtio_console into virtio_serial. > > I think it should better go the other way around: add multichannel > support to virtio-concole, probably guarded by a feature flag so old > host+new guest and new host+old guest combinations continue to work. > >> Since there's support for only one console as of now, I've assigned port >> #2 as the console port so that we hook into hvc when a port is found at >> that location. > > Doesn't sound like this is going to be backward compatible ... > > Also I still think passing a 'protocol' string for each port is a good > idea, so you can stick that into a sysfs file for guests use. Or drops ports altogether and just use protocol strings... Regards, Anthony Liguori _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
