-----Original Message----- From: Olivia Yin [mailto:Hong-Hua.Yin@freescale.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 6:32 PM To: libvir-list(a)redhat.com Cc: Yin Olivia-R63875 Subject: [PATCH] QEMU: Fix virtio-serial device support on PPC. Patch fd0f22ed414e114664f4140306834bedd19f52c9 discard virtio-serial device support on PPC machine. Most PPC boards don't use -chardev with non-virtio serial device except pseries which uses -device spapr-vty with -chardev. Signed-off-by: Olivia Yin <Hong-Hua.Yin(a)freescale.com&gt; --- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c index 8e0a550..4541f52 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c @@ -3493,19 +3493,18 @@ virQEMUCapsSupportsChardev(virDomainDefPtr def, !virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE)) return false; - if ((def->os.arch == VIR_ARCH_PPC) || (def->os.arch == VIR_ARCH_PPC64)) { - /* only pseries need -device spapr-vty with -chardev */ - return (chr->deviceType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_SERIAL && - chr->info.type == VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_ADDRESS_TYPE_SPAPRVIO); - } - - if ((def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_ARMV7L) && (def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_AARCH64)) + if ((def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_ARMV7L) && (def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_AARCH64) && + (def->os.arch != VIR_ARCH_PPC) && (def->os.arch != + VIR_ARCH_PPC64)) return true; /* This may not be true for all ARM machine types, but at least * the only supported non-virtio serial devices of vexpress and versatile * don't have the -chardev property wired up. */ + /* Currently PPC boards don't use -chardev for non-virtio serial device + * except pseries which uses -device spapr-vty with -chardev. */ return (chr->info.type == VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_ADDRESS_TYPE_VIRTIO_MMIO || (chr->deviceType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_CONSOLE && - chr->targetType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_CONSOLE_TARGET_TYPE_VIRTIO)); + chr->targetType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_CONSOLE_TARGET_TYPE_VIRTIO) || + (chr->deviceType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_SERIAL && + chr->info.type == + VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_ADDRESS_TYPE_SPAPRVIO)); } -- 1.8.5