From: Ahmad Fatoum <ahmad@a3f.at>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] fixup! fixup! Documentation: add Documentation on VirtIO for barebox
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 09:39:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210222083959.601990-1-ahmad@a3f.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210222070605.589180-9-ahmad@a3f.at>
Add note about how to access console.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <ahmad@a3f.at>
---
Documentation/user/virtio.rst | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/user/virtio.rst b/Documentation/user/virtio.rst
index caf88ecf73b3..8740c7046340 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/virtio.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/virtio.rst
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ a VirtIO console on ARM::
-chardev socket,path=/tmp/foo,server,nowait,id=foo \
-device virtconsole,chardev=foo,name=console.foo
+To access the console socket, you can use ``socat /tmp/foo -``.
+
Note the use of ``-kernel ./images/barebox-dt-2nd.img`` instead of
``-bios ./images/barebox-$BOARD.img``. ``-kernel`` will cause QEMU
to pass barebox a fixed-up device tree describing the ``virtio-mmio``
--
2.30.0
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-22 7:05 [PATCH 0/8] drivers: add VirtIO console, block device support Ahmad Fatoum
2021-02-22 7:05 ` [PATCH 1/8] kbuild: add include/uapi to path Ahmad Fatoum
2021-02-22 7:05 ` [PATCH 2/8] driver: Don't throw an error on probes that didn't find the device Ahmad Fatoum
2021-02-22 7:05 ` [PATCH 3/8] drivers: add support for memory-mapped VirtIO paravirtualization Ahmad Fatoum
2021-02-22 7:06 ` [PATCH 4/8] hw_random: add VirtIO RNG driver Ahmad Fatoum
2021-02-22 7:06 ` [PATCH 5/8] serial: add basic VirtIO console driver Ahmad Fatoum
2021-02-22 7:06 ` [PATCH 6/8] block: add VirtIO block device driver Ahmad Fatoum
2021-02-22 7:06 ` [PATCH 7/8] ARM: vexpress: config: update for VirtIO support Ahmad Fatoum
2021-02-22 7:06 ` [PATCH 8/8] Documentation: add Documentation on VirtIO for barebox Ahmad Fatoum
2021-02-22 7:15 ` [PATCH] fixup! " Ahmad Fatoum
2021-02-22 8:39 ` Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2021-02-22 9:53 ` [PATCH 0/8] drivers: add VirtIO console, block device support Sascha Hauer
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