The serial ports should be present even if associated with a null device
as some firmware wants to initialize them.
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
int fl_idx = 0;
int fl_sectors = 0;
+ /* Make sure the first 3 serial ports are associated with a device. */
+ for(i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
+ if (!serial_hds[i]) {
+ char label[32];
+ snprintf(label, sizeof(label), "serial%d", i);
+ serial_hds[i] = qemu_chr_open(label, "null", NULL);
+ }
+ }
+
/* init CPUs */
if (cpu_model == NULL) {
#ifdef TARGET_MIPS64