Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751109AbWCVInU (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:43:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751110AbWCVInU (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:43:20 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:46274 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751109AbWCVInS (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:43:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 29/35] Add the Xen virtual console driver. From: Arjan van de Ven To: Chris Wright Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Ian Pratt , Christian Limpach In-Reply-To: <20060322063804.956561000@sorel.sous-sol.org> References: <20060322063040.960068000@sorel.sous-sol.org> <20060322063804.956561000@sorel.sous-sol.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:43:16 +0100 Message-Id: <1143016996.2955.24.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 731 Lines: 17 On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 22:31 -0800, Chris Wright wrote: > plain text document attachment (28-xen-console) > This provides a bootstrap and ongoing emergency console which is > intended to be available from very early during boot and at all times > thereafter, in contrast with alternatives such as UDP-based syslogd, > or logging in via ssh. The protocol is based on a simple shared-memory > ring buffer. there already exist early consoles. Please just use that infrastructure instead. - 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/