From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH] VirtioConsole support. Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:15:01 -0400 Message-ID: <20111103141501.GB26799@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <20111027173527.GA23839@phenom.dumpdata.com> <1319751802-27013-1-git-send-email-miche@google.com> <1319770558.2529.20.camel@Joe-Laptop> <4EAAF23C.8050102@codeaurora.org> <87k47itc7u.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <4EB28B37.8030301@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EB28B37.8030301@de.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Christian Borntraeger Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Stephen Boyd , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Miche Baker-Harvey , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rusty Russell , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Amit Shah , Hendrik Brueckner , Anton Blanchard , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Joe Perches List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/