From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261197AbULHMmV (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2004 07:42:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261198AbULHMmU (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2004 07:42:20 -0500 Received: from canuck.infradead.org ([205.233.218.70]:36872 "EHLO canuck.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261197AbULHMmS (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2004 07:42:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [3/6] Xen VMM #4: runtime disable of VT console From: David Woodhouse To: Ian Pratt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steven.Hand@cl.cam.ac.uk, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk, akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:41:32 +0000 Message-Id: <1102509692.5122.201.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by canuck.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 07:30 +0000, Ian Pratt wrote: > This patch enables the VT console to be disabled at runtime even if it > is built into the kernel. Arch xen needs this to avoid trying to > initialise a VT in virtual machine that doesn't have access to the > console hardware. Embedded machines often don't have console hardware either. Why is this different? Should console_use_vt default to zero and be set only when we find vt-capable hardware? -- dwmw2