Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/13] Implement early printk in virtio-console

[Alexander Graf]

On 24.11.2009, at 20:48, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> Oh, that's bad :-)
>>> 
>>> That should really be it's own character device.  We don't really have a 
>>> way to connect two character devices like that.  Maybe muxing?
>>>    
>> 
>> So you want me to implement char muxing and a bootloader within a week? :)
>>  
> 
> Char muxing is already there.

Ah :-). I guess I could also just create a separate console. It's only for 
early printk anyways.

> Don't know what to do about the bootloader bit.  At this point, I'm curious 
> about whether kboot would be a viable solution.

My opinion would be to leave it as is for now and switch to a real bootloader 
that runs inside the guest later.

Alex