To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
       mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: xen: Make hvc0 the preferred console in domU
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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:27:07 +0200
In-Reply-To: <47F08688.6050206@goop.org> (Jeremy Fitzhardinge's message of "Sun\, 30 Mar 2008 23\:36\:56 -0700")
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes:

> Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> This makes the Xen console just work.  Before, you had to ask for it
>> on the kernel command line with console=hvc0
>>   
>
> I see that this has been causing issues when people expect the pvfb
> driver to be the console.  Should we make it a config option, which
> depends on !XENFB?
>
>    J

That's not quite right, I fear: you still lose if you have it compiled
into the guest, but switched off in your domain configuration.

I'm working on a better solution.
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