On 26.07.2022 05:23, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> Previously only one serial console was supported at the same time. Using
> console=com1,dbgp,vga silently ignored all but last serial console (in
> this case: only dbgp and vga were active).
> 
> Fix this by storing not a single sercon_handle, but an array of them, up
> to MAX_SERCONS entries. The value of MAX_SERCONS can be chosen in
> kconfig, the default (4) is arbitrary, inspired by the number of
> SERHND_IDX values.
> 
> Make console_steal() aware of multiple consoles too. It can now either
> steal output from specific console (for gdbstub), or from all of them at
> once (for console suspend).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <[email protected]>

Actually I should have clarified yesterday that despite my effort to
review this change, I'm not convinced of its need. I simply don't see
the use case of having multiple serial consoles at a time, and afaict
console and gdb connection can already be run over different channels.

Jan

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