On 07/22/2013 01:56:32 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 22.07.2013, at 20:26, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 22 July 2013 18:50, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote:
>> We want to be able to spawn a serial console on the platform bus.
Create
>> a small platbus wrapper device very similar to the ISA one.
>
> Why not use virtio-console?
Because eventually we want -nodefaults not generate any UARTs and
only create them through -device. Guests expect /dev/ttySx device
nodes for their serial ports.
Plus, it's nice to have debug output from early on, rather than having
to wait until PCI is up and running.
-Scott
