Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] wakeup: make serial configurable

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

>>> It seems a bit odd that this is done in the ISA serial model
>>> itself and not by the next level up wiring up some output
>>> of the ISA serial device to some appropriate input...
>>
>> Suggestions how to do that are welcome.  Preferably some which don't
>> break on 'qemu -nodefault -device isa-serial,chardev=foo'.
> 
> Add a qdev property?

And offload it to the user / management tool to get that correct?  Don't
think this is a good idea.

> The base address check can't be correct, the
> serial device could be the only one in the board and wired to wakeup
> but still use a different iobase.

We might want to add a check for TARGET_I386, but for x86 it actually
_is_ correct as this matches the acpi dsdt information.

> One way could be to check if chr == serial_hds[0] or rather, pass the
> wakeup reason code from board level based on this check.

Wouldn't work.

cheers,
  Gerd