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chardev/char-hub: implement backend chardev aggregator

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This patch implements a new chardev backend `hub` device, which
aggregates input from multiple backend devices and forwards it to a
single frontend device. Additionally, `hub` device takes the output
from the frontend device and sends it back to all the connected
backend devices. This allows for seamless interaction between
different backend devices and a single frontend interface.

The idea of the change is trivial: keep list of backend devices
(up to 4), init them on demand and forward data buffer back and
forth.

The following is QEMU command line example:

   -chardev pty,path=/tmp/pty,id=pty0 \
   -chardev vc,id=vc0 \
   -chardev hub,id=hub0,chardevs.0=pty0,chardevs.1=vc0 \
   -device virtconsole,chardev=hub0 \
   -vnc 0.0.0.0:0

Which creates 2 backend devices: text virtual console (`vc0`) and a
pseudo TTY (`pty0`) connected to the single virtio hvc console with
the backend aggregator (`hub0`) help. `vc0` renders text to an image,
which can be shared over the VNC protocol.  `pty0` is a pseudo TTY
backend which provides biderectional communication to the virtio hvc
console.

'chardevs.N' list syntax is used for the sake of compatibility with
the representation of JSON lists in 'key=val' pairs format of the
util/keyval.c, despite the fact that modern QAPI way of parsing,
namely qobject_input_visitor_new_str(), is not used. Choice of keeping
QAPI list syntax may help to smoothly switch to modern parsing in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Roman Penyaev <r.peniaev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Message-ID: <20250123085327.965501-3-r.peniaev@gmail.com>
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Roman Penyaev 2025-01-23 09:53:22 +01:00 • committed by Marc-André Lureau
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@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ OBJECT_DECLARE_TYPE(Chardev, ChardevClass, CHARDEV)
#define TYPE_CHARDEV_NULL "chardev-null"
#define TYPE_CHARDEV_MUX "chardev-mux"
#define TYPE_CHARDEV_HUB "chardev-hub"
#define TYPE_CHARDEV_RINGBUF "chardev-ringbuf"
#define TYPE_CHARDEV_PTY "chardev-pty"
#define TYPE_CHARDEV_CONSOLE "chardev-console"