Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: s390: Split out early console code.

Cornelia Huck
2012-10-30T12:59:26Z

On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:14:19 +0100
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:

>
> On 29.10.2012, at 14:07, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>
> > This code is transport agnostic and can be used by both the legacy
> > virtio code and virtio_ccw.
>
> Would it be possible to actually send real virtio or sclp console commands for early printk? That'd make things a lot easier on the user space end. Combining two completely separate character channels (early printk + sclp or early printk + virtio-console) is really tricky.
>

This code is only used if we use a virtio console device. The sclp
code path is completely different.

What do you mean with "real virtio console commands"? The message is
just put on the output queue anyway.