From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
To: Aron Griffis <aron@hp.com>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: console questions
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:59:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C2DDE4FE.13AAF%keir@xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070806212923.GA22302@fc.hp.com>
On 6/8/07 22:29, "Aron Griffis" <aron@hp.com> wrote:
> 1. xencons=xvc works and makes more sense than clobbering ttyS0 by
> default. Is there some reason that the default for xencons is
> still ttyS on dom0? Sure hvc is coming, but would it be reasonable
> to change the default for xencons in the meantime?
Now done for dom0 and domU. Users will need to change their inittab to getty
xvc0, or need to place 'xencons=tty' on their kernel command line.
> 2. xencons=xvc1 and upward is accepted by the kernel, but it just
> changes the userland naming. The major/minor remains the same at
> 204/191. What's the point of this? Is there any reason to allow
> anything other than xencons=xvc or xencons=xvc0?
What's the better alternative? Needlessly penalise a typo?
-- Keir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-06 21:29 console questions Aron Griffis
2007-08-07 7:59 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2007-08-07 21:37 ` Aron Griffis
2007-08-07 23:17 ` Aron Griffis
2007-08-08 7:14 ` Keir Fraser
2007-08-09 3:06 ` Alex Williamson
2007-08-12 22:04 ` Alex Williamson
2007-08-08 7:16 ` Keir Fraser
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