Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 09/14] conf: Add VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_SERIAL_TARGET_TYPE_PL011

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 16:17 +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > On Thursday, 16 November 2017 14:56:32 CET Pavel Hrdina wrote: > > How about we introduce another attribute/element that would specify the > > exact model of the serial device and it would be optional, libvirt would > > be able to choose the model if none is specified. > > Can you please provide an example of how it would look like? <serial type='pty'> <target type='xxx-serial> <model name='splc'/> </target> </serial>

> > I was no able to find anything about s390 and its sclp/sclplm consoles > > but it's the same case. I would expect that both devices are connected > > to the same BUS, we just need to find the BUS name to use it $BUS-serial > > and have sclp/sclplm as models. > > There is no real bus for sclp/sclplm -- there is only an internal "bus" > in QEMU, but it should not be exposed in upper layers (as it is only an > implementation detail). There's probably some name, in some spec, somewhere :) Or we could use 's390-serial', but that would be suboptimal. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization