Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 00/12] qemu: support chardev for all machvirt config

On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 14:01 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > Drew pointed out that we can use -chardev with machvirt platform > serial devices like: > > -chardev pty,id=foo > -serial chardev:foo > > And indeed it looks like qemu has supported this for as long as -chardev > has been around. Wiring this up will enable all the modern -chardev > features for every machvirt config (and some other arch/machine types). > > However just enabling that change is going to cause a lot of unneeded > test suite churn, due to the fact that some code is still checking for > qemu -chardev support, even though our minimum qemu version always has > chardev nowadays. So take the opportunity to exorcise QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV > > * Patch 1 reverts Christopher's recent patch, to unbreak existing configs > * Patch 2-3 make pci-serial work for machvirt and demonstrate it with a > test suite change. > * Patch 4-10 slowly strip out QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE > * Patch 11 adds -chardev support for platform serial devices > * Patch 12 is a cleanup Things that I forgot to mention during review: * patch 11/12 fixes [1], a fact that should be mentioned in the commit message; * you need to update the release notes as well. Thanks for taking on this! :)