Package: qemu-system-arm
Version: 1:5.1+dfsg-4+b1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
Control: block 973038 by -1

Dear Maintainer,

I am trying to make autopkgtest-virt-qemu usable on arm64 as
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973038

autopkgtest-virt-qemu needs two serial ports in the emulation.
But qemu-system-aarch64 only allows at most one serial port.
This is an upstream design decision as
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-discuss/2018-11/msg00001.html

An unofficial patch is available at
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/479085/can-qemu-m-virt-on-arm-aarch64-have-multiple-serial-ttys-like-such-as-pl011-t

Best regards, Ryutaroh Matsumoto


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages qemu-system-arm depends on:
ii  libaio1             0.3.112-8
ii  libc6               2.31-4
ii  libcapstone3        4.0.1+really+3.0.5-2+b1
ii  libepoxy0           1.5.4-1
ii  libfdt1             1.6.0-1
ii  libgbm1             20.1.9-1
ii  libgcc-s1           10.2.0-15
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.66.1-2
ii  libgnutls30         3.6.15-4
ii  libibverbs1         31.0-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo     1:2.0.5-1.1
ii  libnettle8          3.6-2
ii  libnuma1            2.0.12-1+b1
ii  libpixman-1-0       0.36.0-1
ii  libpmem1            1.9.1-3
ii  libpng16-16         1.6.37-3
ii  librdmacm1          31.0-1
ii  libsasl2-2          2.1.27+dfsg-2
ii  libseccomp2         2.4.4-1+b1
ii  libslirp0           4.3.1-1
ii  libspice-server1    0.14.3-1
ii  libstdc++6          10.2.0-15
ii  liburing1           0.7-1
ii  libusb-1.0-0        2:1.0.23-2
ii  libvdeplug2         4.0.1-2
ii  libvirglrenderer1   0.8.2-4
ii  qemu-system-common  1:5.1+dfsg-4+b1
ii  qemu-system-data    1:5.1+dfsg-4
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

Versions of packages qemu-system-arm recommends:
ii  ipxe-qemu         1.0.0+git-20190125.36a4c85-5
ii  qemu-efi-aarch64  2020.08-1
ii  qemu-efi-arm      2020.08-1
pn  qemu-system-gui   <none>
ii  qemu-utils        1:5.1+dfsg-4+b1

Versions of packages qemu-system-arm suggests:
pn  qemu-block-extra  <none>
pn  samba             <none>
pn  vde2              <none>

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