Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] 2nd serial port by default

[Stuart Brady]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:26:40PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> In practice I'd expect that by far the most common use for serial ports is a 
> serial console, and one is more than sufficient for that. If you want to do 
> anything else then you're probably going to need special -serial options 
> anyway.

The issue here is that the MIPS Magnum has two serial ports, and its
firmware checks that both serial ports are functioning and complains
if either of them is not.  If the user only needs a single serial port,
then they currently have to pass '-serial null' for the second port.

IMO, the default number of ports that are emulated should depend on the
machine that is being emulated.

Cheers,
-- 
Stuart Brady