Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] seabios: add serial console support

2016-07-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 01:45:10PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 05/07/2016 12:07, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >> > What the final default behavior will be is not clear yet. Not enabled? > >> > Enabled in case no VGA is present? Enabled unconditionally (simliar to > >> > ovmf)? > > (Bitt

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] seabios: add serial console support

2016-07-05 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 05/07/2016 12:07, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> > What the final default behavior will be is not clear yet. Not enabled? >> > Enabled in case no VGA is present? Enabled unconditionally (simliar to >> > ovmf)? > (Bitter) experiance in libvirt has shown us that magically enabling > things based

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] seabios: add serial console support

2016-07-05 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 05/07/2016 12:00, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > One option would be to continue using sgabios.bin in fw_cfg. But > instead of loading and executing it activate the build-in serial console > if we find the file. That would make the switch completely transparent > to upper layers. But it is quite ha

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] seabios: add serial console support

2016-07-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 12:00:48PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Di, 2016-07-05 at 09:06 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 10:39:51PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Next round of patches. Changes: > > > > > > * Moved it all to a new sercon.c fi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] seabios: add serial console support

2016-07-05 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Di, 2016-07-05 at 09:06 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 10:39:51PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Next round of patches. Changes: > > > > * Moved it all to a new sercon.c file. > > * Code maps cp437 to utf8 now, giving a much nicer display. Compare

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] seabios: add serial console support

2016-07-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 10:39:51PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > Next round of patches. Changes: > > * Moved it all to a new sercon.c file. > * Code maps cp437 to utf8 now, giving a much nicer display. Compare >"Use the ↑ and ↓ keys to change the selection." (this series) with >

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] seabios: add serial console support

2016-07-04 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, Next round of patches. Changes: * Moved it all to a new sercon.c file. * Code maps cp437 to utf8 now, giving a much nicer display. Compare "Use the ↑ and ↓ keys to change the selection." (this series) with "Use the ^ and v keys to change the selection." (sgabios) ;-) * Simplifie