Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 4/7] xen/arm: Implement a virtual UART

[Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>]

At 17:09 +0100 on 01 Aug (1375376969), Julien Grall wrote:
> This code is based on the previous vuart0 implementation. Unlike the latter,
> it's intend to replace UART stolen by XEN to DOM0 via dtuart=... on its
> command line.
> 
> It's useful when the kernel is compiled with early printk enabled or for a
> single platform. Most of the time, the hardcoded code to handle the UART
> will need 2 registers: status and data, the others registers can be
> implemented as RAZ/WI.
> 
> This commit will also drop support of early printk (based on vexpress pl011)
> in the guest.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>

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