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Virtio console driver
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:03:39 +0000 (11:03 +1000)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:49:55 +0000 (15:49 +1000)
commit31610434bc3523c0b01a10917a1185096a03c4c8
tree4b349e73a16e5ba997e0b80adec04f6bc0139163
parente467cde238184d1b0923db2cd61ae1c5a6dc15aa
Virtio console driver

This is an hvc-based virtio console driver.  It's suboptimal becuase
hvc expects to have raw access to interrupts and virtio doesn't assume
that, so it currently polls.

There are two solutions: expose hvc's "kick" interface, or wean off hvc.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
drivers/char/Kconfig
drivers/char/Makefile
drivers/char/virtio_console.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/virtio_console.h [new file with mode: 0644]