[SerialICE] Experiencing a qemu segfault and serialice accessibility problems

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: serialice-bounces+mylesgw=gmail.com at serialice.com [mailto:serialice-
> bounces+mylesgw=gmail.com at serialice.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Reinauer
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 3:20 PM
> To: serialice at serialice.com
> Subject: Re: [SerialICE] Experiencing a qemu segfault and serialice
> accessibility problems
> 
>  On 8/3/10 9:13 PM, Myles Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Stefan Reinauer
> > <stefan.reinauer at coresystems.de> wrote:
> >> On 8/3/10 8:35 PM, Myles Watson wrote:
> >>
> >>> $ sudo ./i386-softmmu/qemu -serialice /dev/ttyUSB0 -hda /dev/zero -L
> bios/
> >> I think you also need to specify -M serialice.
> > Yes.  The parameters changed from the patch to the tree version of
> > qemu.  I think we should retire the patch and let people generate
> > their own from the tree, or find a way to keep it up to date
> > automatically.
> >
> > Myles
> 
> Absolutely. The mechanism that lets you create your own patch is "make
> diff" on the top level. It is called for every release, but not in
> between. So whenever using the SVN version of SerialICE you also have to
> use the SVN version of the coreboot tree or you will most likely run
> into odd trouble.

Sorry to be dense.  I missed that completely when I was coming up to speed
with SerialICE.

> I had hoped that we could get rid of the "serialice" machine type, but
> except getting rid of another parameter it doesn't make a whole lot of
> sense.

I agree.

Thanks,
Myles