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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] Drop compile time limit on number of seri
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] Drop compile time limit on number of serial ports |
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Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:56:39 +0100 |
On 20 April 2018 at 15:52, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> For many years, QEMU has had a compile time restriction on how
> many serial port devices you can create and configure with the
> -serial argument. This is 4, largely because for x86 PC the
> traditional number of ISA serial devices is 4, and nobody's
> ever changed the limit since.
>
> This patchset drops the compile time limit.
Applied to master, with minor tweak in patch 13.
I only realised when I came back to here that I'd forgotten
about checkpatch's preference for not zero-initializing
static globals; I'll send a fixup patch for that.
thanks
-- PMM
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