Aspeed VUART implementation for QEMU

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 11/22/2016 01:56 AM, Alastair D'Silva wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I was thinking of getting stuck into the VUART implementation in QEMU
> soon.
> 
> After reading the docs, I think we should map in a 16550 uart at the
> address specified in the design docs, and attach the other end of the
> uart to a socket. Does this sound reasonable?

yes, using a chardev socket to connect it to the other end. 

I think we could event connect the console of a pnv guest for that. 
Use this branch, if you want a full working one :

	https://github.com/legoater/qemu/tree/powernv-ipmi-2.8

C. 


> Joel mentioned that Cedric has already given this some thought, so I'd
> love to hear it.