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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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On 24.11.2009, at 20:48, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> Oh, that's bad :-)
>>>=20
>>> 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?
>>>   =20
>>=20
>> So you want me to implement char muxing and a bootloader within a =
week? :)
>> =20
>=20
> 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=