On boot, the following error is observed on the qemuarm and qemuarm64 serial consoles INIT: Id "hvc0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes It does not appear to affect the functionality, but undetermined if the virtio serial is functional in this case.
Patch submitted to mailing list. Just need to set SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK in qemuarm.conf and qemuarm64.conf.
Patch is in master now: https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=982b7f98b8423236cc986346379b1bde3694f131 Closing as fixed.