Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754941Ab3DZLeO (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:34:14 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f173.google.com ([209.85.217.173]:61758 "EHLO mail-lb0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754724Ab3DZLeN (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:34:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1366974299-17877-1-git-send-email-pranavkumar@linaro.org> From: Peter Maydell Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:33:50 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Early printk support for virtio console devices. To: Alexander Graf Cc: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 18 On 26 April 2013 12:19, Alexander Graf wrote: > MMIO registers are handled by a different layer than the virtio > console itself. After the virtio refactoring in QEMU, they will > be completely separate drivers. Good point -- we don't really want to be mixing up the transport and the backend. You can see it in the kvmtool patch, in fact -- it introduces an "if this is virtio-console" special case into the mmio.c file which previously was entirely backend agnostic. thanks -- PMM -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/