Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Question about KVM and PC speaker

[Jan Kiszka]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Huh, it is! Then the problem is a KVM-only thing: The kernel part hooks
>> onto those resources but doesn't communicate changes to this user space
>> backend.
>>   
> 
> In this case, the -no-kvm-pit option should help.

Probably fine in many cases (where the PIT is no longer used anyway),
just a bit unintuitive for users.

I wonder why KVM moved port 0x61 handling into kernel space at all. By
leaving it in pcspk hands and extending the latter to sync with the
in-kernel PIT on sample generation, this speaker regression (of
kvm-userspace) should have been avoidable.

Jan

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