Re: [Qemu-discuss] quick pointer on adding a new chardev

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 February 2017 at 16:49, Herb Peyerl <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Feb 17, 2017, at 9:36 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> qemu-system-aarch64: Option ‘-device myfoo’ cannot be handled by this 
>>>> machine
>>
>> This is saying "I don't know about this device at all", and
>> doesn't have anything to do with chardevs. I would
>> start by checking that your code is really being built
>> (ie you have the makefile syntax right and have specified
>> in the right default-configs/ file that it should be
>> built for this target architecture, and that you have
>> the right syntax to register the device (the type_init
>> macro and associated boilerplate).
>
> My device is in there.  I can insmod my driver on the guest and
> I see my device registers being read/written do.

If your device is already present then you don't want to
try to use -device (which would be attempting to add
a second instance of it to the system).

thanks
-- PMM