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    hw/arm/virt: allow creation of a second NonSecure UART · e7100972
    Peter Maydell authored
    
    
    For some use-cases, it is helpful to have more than one UART
    available to the guest.  If the second UART slot is not already used
    for a TrustZone Secure-World-only UART, create it as a NonSecure UART
    only when the user provides a serial backend (e.g.  via a second
    -serial command line option).
    
    This avoids problems where existing guest software only expects a
    single UART, and gets confused by the second UART in the DTB.  The
    major example of this is older EDK2 firmware, which will send the
    GRUB bootloader output to UART1 and the guest serial output to UART0.
    Users who want to use both UARTs with a guest setup including EDK2
    are advised to update to EDK2 release edk2-stable202311 or newer.
    (The prebuilt EDK2 blobs QEMU upstream provides are new enough.)
    The relevant EDK2 changes are the ones described here:
    https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4577
    
    Inspired-by: default avatarAxel Heider <axel.heider@hensoldt.net>
    Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydel...
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