Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: Implement better workaround in spapr-vty device

2019-07-31 Thread David Gibson
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 02:36:54PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Linux guest kernels have code which scans the string of characters > returned from the H_GET_TERM_CHAR hypercall and removes any \0 > character which comes immediately after a \r character. This is to > work around a bug which was p

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr: Implement better workaround in spapr-vty device

2019-07-30 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linux guest kernels have code which scans the string of characters returned from the H_GET_TERM_CHAR hypercall and removes any \0 character which comes immediately after a \r character. This is to work around a bug which was present in some ancient versions of PowerVM. In order to avoid the corru