From: Jeremy Katz Subject: Re: [PATCH] Virtual console driver on /dev/xvc0 (take two) Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:37:00 -0400 Message-ID: <1154713020.8252.8.camel@aglarond.local> References: <20060802214226.GA14656@kvasir.watson.ibm.com> <659b9a19c91fde3126cb6c3ec32a8eaa@cl.cam.ac.uk> <20060803230747.GA28588@kvasir.watson.ibm.com> <07eaf363aa125b61f9928223b9f857b4@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1154701424.8735.2.camel@orodruin.boston.redhat.com> <20060804171514.GA7375@kvasir.watson.ibm.com> <9F9C3245-A632-4568-B858-97CF493F32F0@watson.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9F9C3245-A632-4568-B858-97CF493F32F0@watson.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jimi Xenidis Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Amos Waterland List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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