Following commit 12051d82f004024, UART devices should handle being passed a NULL pointer chardev, so we don't need to create "null" backends in board code. Remove the code that does this and updates serial_hds[].
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> --- hw/mips/mips_malta.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/mips/mips_malta.c b/hw/mips/mips_malta.c index f6513a4fd5..49fe7a0a72 100644 --- a/hw/mips/mips_malta.c +++ b/hw/mips/mips_malta.c @@ -1056,11 +1056,6 @@ void mips_malta_init(MachineState *machine) /* FPGA */ - /* Make sure the second serial port is associated with a device. */ - if (!serial_hds[2]) { - serial_hds[2] = qemu_chr_new("fpga-uart", "null"); - } - /* The CBUS UART is attached to the MIPS CPU INT2 pin, ie interrupt 4 */ malta_fpga_init(system_memory, FPGA_ADDRESS, cbus_irq, serial_hds[2]); -- 2.17.0