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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] linux: make xencons separately configurable and

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] linux: make xencons separately configurable and modular
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:24:15 +0100
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>>> Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 28.02.06 18:33:23 >>>
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>On 28 Feb 2006, at 16:49, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> This is a little more involved because there had been hard calls into 
>> the console code from reboot.c. Only compile
>> tested so far.
>
>Why would you want to make the console driver modular? It's the only 
>way for domains to get early boot information out to the user.

Right. But dom0 doesn't necessarily need this early on, nor would a kernel 
running on micro-Xen need it.

Jan

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