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From: Andrew Morton
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Re: [PATCH 1/5] xen: Enable console tty by default in domU if it's not a dummy
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 5:26 pm
On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:38:50 +0200 Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
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> Without console= arguments on the kernel command line, the first > console to register becomes enabled and the preferred console (the one > behind /dev/console). This is normally tty (assuming > CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE is enabled, which it commonly is). > > This is okay as long tty is a useful console. But unless we have the > PV framebuffer, and it is enabled for this domain, tty0 in domU is > merely a dummy. In that case, we want the preferred console to be the > Xen console hvc0, and we want it without having to fiddle with the > kernel command line. Commit b8c2d3dfbc117dff26058fbac316b8acfc2cb5f7 > did that for us. > > Since we now have the PV framebuffer, we want to enable and prefer tty > again, but only when PVFB is enabled. But even then we still want to > enable the Xen console as well. > > Problem: when tty registers, we can't yet know whether the PVFB is > enabled. By the time we can know (xenstore is up), the console setup > game is over. > > Solution: enable console tty by default, but keep hvc as the preferred > console. Change the preferred console to tty when PVFB probes > successfully, unless we've been given console kernel parameters.
What a stunningly good changelog - I'd buy the tee-shirt. Ack on the non-xen bits. --
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