Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/17] qidl: add QEMU IDL processor

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 June 2012 00:51, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> In the case of a CharDriverState, the reference is always immutable.  If we
> supported changing char backends dynamically, it would not happen by
> changing the reference, but almost certainly by having the ability to reopen
> the char driver in place.

Incidentally, we may not support it but we do it anyway; see hw/omap_uart.c
omap_uart_attach()... (That's a nasty hack which it would be good to clean
up somehow.)

-- PMM