Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: support 4 serial ports

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> Now that the 2.11 release is mostly out of the way, I've been
> working through some of my other todo list items so I've
> come back to this thread.
>
> My suggestion is that we should add a second non-secure UART
> to the virt board, so if you're using secure=no then you
> get serial 1 and 2, and for secure=yes serial 1 is the first
> NS uart, serial 2 is the secure uart and serial 3 is the
> 2nd NS uart. (I don't really want to add a 4th uart unless
> there's some good reason to -- maybe we would turn out to
> want it for the secure side, for instance.)
>
> I'll probably write a patch for this next week, unless you
> want to do it.

Sounds great to me. Thanks!

I'm curious why you don't want to add a 4th UART. It seems trivial to
do, and the more the merrier? Or that's a silly attitude? Mostly just
curious about that, as having two personally suits my needs.