Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Maydell <> | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:30:52 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC] arm64: Early printk support for virtio-mmio console devices. |
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On 18 April 2013 07:49, Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org> wrote: > If you need an early console, why not simply wire the 8250 emulation in > kvmtool to be useable from the MMIO bus? I reckon this would solve your > problem in a more elegant way...
The other approach I thought of would be something involving defining a hypercall interface for console I/O, in the same way that we have hypercalls for "start cpu"/"stop cpu"/etc. Is there any mileage in considering that approach, or is it a non-starter?
thanks -- PMM
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