Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 05/23] semihosting: enable chardev backed output

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 17:59, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> For running system tests we want to be able to re-direct output to a
>> file like we do with serial output. This does the wiring to allow us
>> to treat semihosting like just another character output device.
>>
>> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
>> index 51802cbb266..6aa3a08c2fb 100644
>> --- a/qemu-options.hx
>> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
>> @@ -3975,12 +3975,12 @@ STEXI
>>  Enable semihosting mode (ARM, M68K, Xtensa, MIPS, Nios II only).
>>  ETEXI
>>  DEF("semihosting-config", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_semihosting_config,
>> -    "-semihosting-config 
>> [enable=on|off][,target=native|gdb|auto][,arg=str[,...]]\n" \
>> +    "-semihosting-config 
>> [enable=on|off][,target=native|gdb|auto][,chardev=id][,arg=str[,...]]\n" \
>>      "                semihosting configuration\n",
>>  QEMU_ARCH_ARM | QEMU_ARCH_M68K | QEMU_ARCH_XTENSA | QEMU_ARCH_LM32 |
>>  QEMU_ARCH_MIPS | QEMU_ARCH_NIOS2)
>
> As you can see in the docs here, semihosting is supported on
> five guest architectures, so we should implement this new
> feature for all of them, not just arm.

As I've introduced this for testing I see no reason not to add support
for other architectures. However I was hoping this is something that
could be done organically as other system tests get enabled.

--
Alex Bennée