Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/elmarco/tags/char-pull-request' into staging

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* remotes/elmarco/tags/char-pull-request:
  test-char: start a /char/serial test
  chardev: don't use alias names in parse_compat()
  char: fix alias devices regression

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>