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migration-guides: mention runqemu change in serial port management

Message ID 20231027154614.1630176-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com
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Series migration-guides: mention runqemu change in serial port management | expand

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Michael Opdenacker Oct. 27, 2023, 3:46 p.m. UTC 
From: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Reported-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@kernel.crashing.org>
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 .../migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst        | 20 +++++++++++++++++--
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diff --git a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst
index c47d09a1ae..3fa131ef0c 100644
--- a/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst
+++ b/documentation/migration-guides/migration-4.3.rst
@@ -108,11 +108,27 @@  The following classes have been removed in this release:
 
 .. _migration-4.3-misc-changes:
 
+QEMU changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+-  The ``runqemu`` script no longer systematically adds two serial ports
+   (``--serial null`` and ``-serial mon:stdio``) to the QEMU emulated machine
+   if the user already adds such ports through the ``QB_OPT_APPEND`` setting.
+
+   If the user adds one port, only ``--serial null`` is added, and
+   ``-serial mon:stdio`` is no longer passed. If the user adds more than one
+   port, ``--serial null`` is no longer added either. This can break some
+   existing QEMU based configurations expecting such serial ports to be added
+   when ``runqemu`` is executed.
+
+   This change was made to avoid exceeding two serial ports, which interferes
+   with automated testing.
+
 QA check changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-- The fetcher in ``lib/bb/tests/fetch.py`` now uses the ``https`` protocol
-  instead of ``git``, whenever possible.
+-  The fetcher in ``lib/bb/tests/fetch.py`` now uses the ``https`` protocol
+   instead of ``git``, whenever possible.
 
 Miscellaneous changes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~