Late initialization of ttyPZ0 prevents console=ttyPZ0 from working (under qemu-system-ppc64)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:43:16PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Oh I see now, qemu's ./configure has to find libftd-devel installed.
> >
> > With that enabled, I get:
> >
> > pseries              pSeries Logical Partition (PAPR compliant)
> >
> > I will explore the pseries machine type further.
> 
> That is likely the best bet.  At some point there will be viable POWER7
> hardware that will let you actually use KVM much as you would on x86,
> and that is going to be closest to what KVM would use.
> 
> (Not that you'd necessarily _have_ a POWER7 to use KVM on, but it will
> get the most testing focus and hopefully translate to the pseries
> target working well.)

Working some of the time, but qemu hangs occasionally when writing to
the disk.  I'll try to get a reproducer and file a bug with qemu ...

Rich.

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