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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:06:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090921110638.02a2e3e1@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB3C988.2040303@codemonkey.ws>

> Again, this is paravirtual serial device and I think it's entirely 
> reasonable for people to hook up these ports in the guest directly to 
> physical serial devices in the host.

virtio doesn't support all those features.

> I fail to see how this is at all relevant.  This is a virtual
> machine, we're presenting virtual hardware that behaves like a serial
> device.

The more important question is what you are using it for, and when you
ask that question it looks remarkably unlike a tty or serial port and
rather more like a message and status passing bus ?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-21 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11 14:13 Multiple ports support for virtio_console; major number for dev Amit Shah
2009-09-11 14:13 ` [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication Amit Shah
2009-09-11 16:00   ` Alan Cox
2009-09-11 16:38     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-11 17:26       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-11 17:33         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-11 17:35           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-16 10:23             ` Alan Cox
2009-09-16 22:20               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-17 13:06                 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-09-17 13:15                   ` Alan Cox
2009-09-17 13:41                     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-17 15:57                       ` Alan Cox
2009-09-17 16:46                         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-18 16:00                 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-18 17:55                   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-18 17:57                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-18 18:02                       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-19  7:04                       ` Amit Shah
2009-09-18 20:11                     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-19  7:01                     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-21 10:06                     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-09-15 12:37     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-15 12:57       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-15 13:03         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-15 13:37           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-15 14:08         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-15 14:09           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-22  2:44     ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-22 15:45       ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29  9:24         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 10:09           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 10:33             ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 11:02               ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 11:40                 ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 12:03           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 12:20             ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 12:56               ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 13:09                 ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 13:31                   ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-30 17:13                     ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01  8:17                       ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01  8:47                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01  8:55                           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01  9:00                       ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01 10:04                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01 10:28                       ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01 10:42                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01 11:58                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01 12:04                           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01 13:50                             ` Amit Shah
2009-10-05 14:05                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-06  6:49                           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-06  6:55                             ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 13:11   ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-29 13:24     ` Amit Shah

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