On 19 April 2013 10:27, Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> 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... -- PMM -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
