Re: riscv64 virt board crash upon startup

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 9/11/23 10:53, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 12:12:43PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>>> Gerd, here's the question for you: why are "device" and "head" QOM 
>>> properties in the first place? What are they needed for?
>>>
>>
>> You get QOM tree introspection (ex: (qemu) qom-get
>> /backend/console[0]/device type). Other than that, I don't think it
>> brings anything else.
> 
> You can configure vnc server(s) to show a specific device + head, which
> allows to run multihead configurations by using multiple vnc servers (one
> for each head).
> 
> You can link input devices to device + head, so input events can go to
> different devices depending on where they are coming from.  Which is
> most useful for tablet devices in a vnc multihead setup, each head has
> its own tablet device then.  Requires manual guest-side configuration
> to establish the same tablet <-> head relationship (tested that years
> ago with X11, not sure if and how this can be done with wayland).

OK, so I'm going to drop patch#3.

Thanks!
Laszlo