On 7 May 2013 05:46, Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: >> That all looks like sensible QEMU implementation possibilities >> but it seems to be a bit of a non-sequitur from "how do we >> tell the kernel to actually use this?" > > You enable the feature in the virtio console device, and a kernel > compiled with EARLY_PRINTK will use it?
Well, at the moment EARLY_PRINTK is hardcoded to "use some specific UART or equivalent selected at compile time". So the equivalent presumably would be to hard-compile "use virtio-console", but then how does that code know where the virtio-console is in the address space? -- 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/
