From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olaf Hering Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.6.18/xencons: generalize use of add_preferred_console() Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 09:32:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20140207083234.GA17978@aepfle.de> References: <52AAE1C2020000780010CE39@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20140206225334.GA21743@aepfle.de> <52F4A4F7020000780011A102@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta4.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WBgra-0003EB-7X for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Fri, 07 Feb 2014 08:32:42 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52F4A4F7020000780011A102@nat28.tlf.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: xen-devel , Ian Campbell List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Feb 07, Jan Beulich wrote: > They question is what the intended behavior here is: I'd generally In my opinion dom0 is just a child of Xen, which should follow the rules of the parent. If Xen is configured to have its console on serial then the default of dom0 should be to follow just that. Appearently its just a matter of correctly using xvc0. I'm not sure what the gain would be to have Xen on serial and dom0 somewhere else, and enforcing the need of a console= cmdline option to point dom0 also to serial. Thats just doing things twice. Olaf