On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:19:36PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 10:36 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 11:24:38AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > Should this be a <channel> at all?
> >
> > We generally use <serial> for native emulated devices such as
> > isa-serial, which isa-debugcon seems very closely related to...
>
> <channel> is aiming to expose application specific guest data channels.
>
> <serial> is aiming to expose general purpose guest data channels.
>
> To me isa-debugcon is an application specific data channels, so
> <channel> feels a better fit.
Maybe I have misunderstood what isa-debugcon is, but it looks more
of a general purpose channel in the vein of isa-serial rather than
something application specific like the qemu-guest-agent or SPICE
channels for example.
My understanding is that isa-debugcon is a special device just
for usage by SeaBIOS to emit debug messages.
Regards,
Daniel
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