Re: [Xen-devel] console questions

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/8/07 22:37, "Aron Griffis" <aron@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks, that's great.  I am mystified by something though: How is
> /dev/console hooked up to /dev/xvc0 by default?  If I boot dom0 and
> omit both xencons and console kernel parameters, /dev/console is
> clearly being hooked up to /dev/xvc0.  But I'm not seeing how this
> happens.
> 
> In fact, arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c assumes that the default for
> xencons is ttyS and calls add_preferred_console("ttyS", 0, NULL);
> I would expect this to break things, but somehow it doesn't.  This
> makes me wonder if that code is necessary at all.

It isn't because we assert CON_ENABLED in our console-info structure. This
means it prints console output even without a 'console=' line. All I had to
change was inittab and securetty to getty on xvc0 and allow root login on
xvc0.

 -- Keir

>>> 2. xencons=xvc1 and upward is accepted by the kernel, but it just
>>>    changes the userland naming.  The major/minor remains the same at
>>>    204/191.  What's the point of this?  Is there any reason to allow
>>>    anything other than xencons=xvc or xencons=xvc0?
>> 
>> What's the better alternative? Needlessly penalise a typo?
> 
> I wasn't suggesting castigation...  Mostly I wanted to understand if
> there was a hidden reason for supporting xvc1 and higher.  The fact
> that xencons=xvc1 will make the console show up in a different place
> makes distro support more interesting.



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