[PATCH v8 0/1] virtio_console: Add support for multiple console ports and generic serial ports

From: Amit Shah
Date: Mon Oct 12 2009 - 01:38:28 EST


Hello all,

Here is a new iteration of the patch series that implements a
transport for guest and host communications.

I've tested for compatibility (old qemu & new kernel, new qemu & old
kernel, new qemu & new kernel) and it all works fine. To maintain
backward compatibility, the first port to be spawned (port at id 0) is
to be a console port, to be bound to hvc. This keeps new host, old
guest happy.

Christian has tested the console functionality on s390.

Please review and apply,
Amit

Amit Shah (1):
virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and
host communication

drivers/char/Kconfig | 6 +
drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 1290 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
include/linux/virtio_console.h | 50 ++-
3 files changed, 1210 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-)

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