Re: using com2 from dom 0 ....

[Himanshu Raj <rhim@cc.gatech.edu>]

I need to use minicom in dom0 to connect to a device connected at serial port
1. I also wanted to be able to switch back and forth between xen and dom0 console,
hence I liked the console connected to serial port 0.

-Himanshu
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:42:13PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> On 13 Sep 2005, at 16:45, Himanshu Raj wrote:
> 
> >Is there a way to attach xenconsole to ttyS0 in dom0 as usual and 
> >still be able
> >to use ttyS1 (com port 2) from linux. I simply tried to use the 8250 
> >driver,
> >but loading that module fails. I don't want to use xenconsole=tty 
> >since I access
> >this machine via serial console from other machine.
> 
> I doubt it, since the native serial driver expects to grab both ports 
> and will fail completely if it fails on either one. What is wrong with 
> binding to tty instead? It's just a name -- the I/O will still go thru 
> com1 in Xen.
> 
>  -- Keir

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