[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Virtual console driver on /dev/xvc0 (take two)

[Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 13:22 -0400, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
> On Aug 4, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Amos Waterland wrote:
> > diff -r 17aa29a18b08 drivers/xen/console/console.c
> > --- a/drivers/xen/console/console.c Thu Jul 27 18:57:20 2006 -0400
> > +++ b/drivers/xen/console/console.c Fri Aug 04 13:04:06 2006 -0400
> > @@ -63,13 +63,20 @@
> >   *  'xencons=off'  [XC_OFF]:     Console is disabled.
> >   *  'xencons=tty'  [XC_TTY]:     Console attached to '/dev/tty[0-9] 
> > +'.
> >   *  'xencons=ttyS' [XC_SERIAL]:  Console attached to '/dev/ttyS 
> > [0-9]+'.
> > + *  'xencons=xvc'  [XC_XVC]:     Console attached to '/dev/xvc[0-9] 
> > +'.
> >   *                 [XC_DEFAULT]: DOM0 -> XC_SERIAL ; all others ->  
> > XC_TTY.
>
> Can't we switch the DomU's to XVC as well?

I would expect that's what we want to do.  At which point, the current
xenconsole should behave like a serial console (stop taking
over /dev/tty*, etc) and we can hopefully have the xenfb stuff to
provide a more full-featured console for domUs

Jeremy


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