On 9/27/19 3:36 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 14:26, Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 02:54:10PM +0200, bzt wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 9/26/19, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> wrote: >>>> Currently we are limited to use the first serial console available. >>> >>> I'm not so sure. Right now it works like this: >>> >>> qemu -serial stdio >>> Connects the VM's UART0 (PL011) serial console to the host terminal >>> >>> qemu -serial null -serial stdio >>> Connects the VM's UART1 (AUX) serial console to the host terminal >>> >>> I think this is simple and good, please don't remove this option. If >>> your commit does not influence these cli args, I'm not against it. >>> >> Agreed. I am using that mechanism (raspi3 uses the second console, >> not pl011) in my scripts. Please don't take it away. > > This patch is changing our python infrastructure that invokes > QEMU, not QEMU itself. What Philippe's message means is > "currently our code for running QEMU as part of tests like > this is limited to using the first serial console; this doesn't > work for raspi because we want to use the second (aux) console; > so make the test infrastructure able to handle machines like this."
Exactly, thanks Peter for clarifying. I'll try to come with a clearer commit description. Regards, Phil.
