Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] hw/arm/virt-acpi-build: Add second UART to ACPI tables

[Peter Maydell]

On 12 December 2017 at 14:12, Ard Biesheuvel <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12 December 2017 at 14:10, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>> That doesn't actually usefully separate debug output from the
>> console, though, because stdout-path is also going to point
>> to the UART with the lowest physical address...
>>
>
> By default, yes, just like is currently the case. But I would assume
> this new serial port could be appointed 'console' and put into
> stdout-path by QEMU, based on the command line options?

We don't have any command line options for doing that, and I'm
generally reluctant to introduce new command line UI, especially
new command line UI that's specific to Arm and not also needed
for x86.

thanks
-- PMM