From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steven.Hand@cl.cam.ac.uk,
Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk,
akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [3/6] Xen VMM #4: runtime disable of VT console
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:41:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102509692.5122.201.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CbwGw-0006Rk-00@mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk>
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 07:30 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> This patch enables the VT console to be disabled at runtime even if it
> is built into the kernel. Arch xen needs this to avoid trying to
> initialise a VT in virtual machine that doesn't have access to the
> console hardware.
Embedded machines often don't have console hardware either. Why is this
different? Should console_use_vt default to zero and be set only when we
find vt-capable hardware?
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-08 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-08 7:28 Xen VMM patch set - take 4 Ian Pratt
2004-12-08 7:29 ` [1/6] Xen VMM #4: add ptep_establish_new to make va available Ian Pratt
2004-12-08 10:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-08 7:29 ` [2/6] Xen VMM #4: return code for arch_free_page Ian Pratt
2004-12-08 7:30 ` [3/6] Xen VMM #4: runtime disable of VT console Ian Pratt
2004-12-08 12:41 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2004-12-08 7:30 ` [4/6] Xen VMM #4: HAS_ARCH_DEV_MEM Ian Pratt
2004-12-08 10:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-12-08 7:31 ` [5/6] Xen VMM #4: split free_irq into teardown_irq Ian Pratt
2004-12-08 7:31 ` [6/6] Xen VMM #4: alloc_skb_from_cache Ian Pratt
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