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Re: [Qemu-devel] Serial: possible hang during intensive interaction over
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Serial: possible hang during intensive interaction over the console |
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Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:35:31 +0100 |
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On 11/12/2014 16:06, Peter Maydell wrote:
> An abstraction of that from the specifics of the PC's serial port
> might be nice, yes. (omap_uart.c has to jump through some ugly hoops
> currently, with more ugliness in the out-of-tree omap3 extensions.)
> However I don't think it makes sense to force all serial port
> device models to go through it -- not all the world is a 16550A
> and some UARTs simply are different.
No, definitely not. There's still qemu-char, this would just be an
abstraction providing useful stuff like baud rates and flow control.
Paolo