Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Maydell <> | Date | Mon, 6 May 2013 10:14:23 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Early printk support for virtio console devices. |
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On 6 May 2013 06:11, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes: >> To be actually useful we need to also specify something in >> the device tree to say "here is where you will find your >> emergency output and what it is". > > Hmm, I'm not sure that's true. It looks like it needs: > > 1) An enhancment to the vdev->set_config callback to pass through (at > least) an offset, probably offset and length. > > 2) An emerg_write() function ptr which can be called at any time, set by > virtio_console.c's class_init:
That all looks like sensible QEMU implementation possibilities but it seems to be a bit of a non-sequitur from "how do we tell the kernel to actually use this?"
-- PMM
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