Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-serial: PCI device for simple host <-> guest communication

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) Jun 09 2009 [13:56:57], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:12:48PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> Are you going to post the virtio driver for the Linux kernel later?
>>   
>
> Yeah, I'd like to see the Linux driver before drawing conclusions.

OK; will send in a while.

> Plus, having a virtio serial device and a virtio console seems  
> unfortunate to me.  Anyway we can unify the two?  Maybe make virtio  
> serial support hvc with a feature flag or something instead of ttyS?

Yes, it's possible. I'll look into that once I reach a point where
virtio-serial is ready to be merged. I'll also have to look at making
sure existing guest kernels work with the new, unified device.

                Amit