Re: [PATCH 1/2] Virtual frame buffer: frontend

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>]

>> - once I build a kernel with CONFIG_FB and CONFIG_XEN_FRAMEBUFFER
>> enabled, I don't seem to get any output on the xen text console
>> anymore.  I've tried quite a few combinations of xencons and console
>> on the command line but didn't find one that worked.
> 
> Same here.  The framebuffer takes over the console.  There might be a
> way to avoid that, but I haven't been able to figure it out.

No, there isn't.  xenlinux has hijacked major 4 from the vt subsystem
for the xenconsole.  IMHO that was a bad idea in the first place.  UML
made the same mistake btw.  Now we have the situation that you can have
either the framebuffer + vt or xenconsole, never both.

Asking xenconsole to grab the serial line instead should work
(xencons=ttyS).

cheers,

  Gerd

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