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

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 12 December 2017 at 14:13, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>

If stdout-path is always going to point to address@hidden, why would
we need to parse it?