Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] hw/isa/superio: Fix inconsistent use of Chardev->be

[Peter Maydell]

On 20 April 2018 at 14:04, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/20/2018 09:59 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Incidentally I was wondering if we could sensibly get rid of
>> the compile time MAX_SERIAL_PORTS. Right now there's no way
>> to model a device with five UARTs such that they can all
>> be sent to interesting places. I think there's no reason
>> for this except that the PC traditionally has 4 UARTs and
>> nobody's ever changed the code...
>
> Yes, I thought the same and planned to relax this limit (and few others)
> in my "remove i386/pc dependency from non-PC world" series...

It seems fairly straightforward so I've put some patches
together, might be able to get them onto the list this
afternoon.

thanks
-- PMM