Index: tools/ew.py
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--- tools/ew.py	(revision 739bc43d0eca287d3ca6926cec2d4a1ccd4ed5b2)
+++ tools/ew.py	(revision f3f41498e327dbcb4cefa602eec09e68135fa2cd)
@@ -87,5 +87,5 @@
 
 def malta_options():
-	return '-cpu 4Kc'
+	return '-cpu 4Kc -append "console=devices/\\hw\\pci0\\00:0a.0\\com1\\a"'
 
 def find_firmware(name, environ_var, default_paths, extra_info=None):