From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Smirl Subject: Re: beginnings of allowing more than the basic 80x25 VGA screen resolution Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:52:41 -0400 Message-ID: <9e47339105070108521c174448@mail.gmail.com> References: <42C581D8020000780001E290@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> Reply-To: Jon Smirl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42C581D8020000780001E290@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jan Beulich Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 7/1/05, Jan Beulich wrote: > With stack traces (during kernel crashes) being usually quite long, exten= ding the capacity of the screen to at least 80x30 (20%) may already be cons= idered helpful. I'm certain the patches won't be accepted as-is (namely the= change to the start_info structure), but I need to get an understanding at= what the expectations are to then try to adjust them. You can move the kernel console over to a serial port with console=3DttyS0,11500 on the kernel boot line. Would it be easier for Xen to use virtual serial ports to capture the console? --=20 Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com