From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Miche Baker-Harvey <miche@google.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@ozlabs.org>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VirtioConsole support.
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:15:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111103141501.GB26799@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB28B37.8030301@de.ibm.com>
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 01:38:15PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 02/11/11 23:02, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Ben, Christian, can you figure out what's going on? Is it time for a
> > complete rewrite?
>
> You are talking about hvc console? Yes it has so many users that it is now
> something like a console/tty layer extension, but it was never designed to be
> one.
>
> I think the hardest part would be to get all users together (for testing and
> requirements) and then to find someone that is actually doing that rework. Dont
I am volunteering myself to test the Xen user of it. Perhaps even add some patches,
albeit my knowledge of the hvc console is that "it works" (well, with this minor
speed bump).
> know if the pain level is already that high?
>
> Christian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-03 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20111027173527.GA23839@phenom.dumpdata.com>
2011-10-27 18:39 ` [PATCH] VirtioConsole support Miche Baker-Harvey
2011-10-27 21:43 ` Miche Baker-Harvey
[not found] ` <1319751802-27013-1-git-send-email-miche@google.com>
2011-10-27 21:55 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-10-28 16:27 ` Greg KH
2011-10-28 2:55 ` Joe Perches
2011-10-28 18:19 ` Stephen Boyd
[not found] ` <4EAAF23C.8050102@codeaurora.org>
2011-11-02 22:02 ` Rusty Russell
2011-11-03 12:38 ` Christian Borntraeger
2011-11-03 14:15 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
[not found] ` <1319740793-2187-1-git-send-email-miche@google.com>
2011-10-27 21:15 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-10-31 9:55 ` Amit Shah
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