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Re: [PATCH] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] support console resolutions better tha

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] support console resolutions better than 80x25
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:42:07 +0200
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>>> * txt_x/txt_y aren't written by Xen nor are they read by Linux -- can we
>>> kill the fields?
>> 
>> Linux actually uses orig_y (in earlyprintk.c), so I'd like to keep them and
>> at some point properly fill them so Linux can propagate these values.
>> You'll note that currently I simply set orig_y to the end of the screen, 
>> since
>> Xen is virtually guaranteed to push out at least a screenful of information
>> before starting Linux.
>> The problem here is that these fields cannot be set in fill_console_info, but
>> would need to be set once it is certain that there is not going to be any
>> more (non-debug) output from Xen.
>
>How will Linux know when we start filling them in properly? (0,0) would be a
>valid setting!
>
>We should set them to the conservative (bottom-of-screen) value in Xen and
>read the values from console_info in Linux, rather than initialising from
>hardcoded values in Linux.

That's fine with me.

Jan

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