From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDHiC-0000YG-RU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:15:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDHi5-0000Tu-I5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:15:10 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35655 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDHi3-0000TC-FI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:15:04 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]:49938) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDHi3-0003Hi-6L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:15:03 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/13] Implement early printk in virtio-console Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:14:46 +0100 References: <1259083781-14642-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <4B0C3440.7080406@codemonkey.ws> <4B0D002D.7020700@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4B0D002D.7020700@de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911251414.47098.arnd@arndb.de> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Carsten Otte , Carsten Otte , Aurelien Jarno , Alexander Graf On Wednesday 25 November 2009, Carsten Otte wrote: > Anthony Liguori 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? > It will be a character device, once the device tree is initialized. > Better ideas are welcome, just keep in mind basic things like kmalloc > don't work yet. > Can't you just leave it out for this release? Early printk is great for debugging, but not essential if you just want to run a guest as long as you get it past the virtio init phase. Arnd <><