Re: [Xen-devel] Xen virtual console driver question

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 Aug 2006, at 22:42, Amos Waterland wrote:

> I am currently using the below patch, but would really prefer not to.
> It's basic approach is to have the Xen virtual console driver react
> "gracefully" in the case that a real serial driver has already
> registered ttyS0-ttyS3.  It's current behavior is to fail if the 8250
> driver was initialized ahead of it, and console is lost.  In the 
> process
> I found a bug in Linux, and have included the patch for it since
> otherwise the Xen driver initialization will succeed but with negative
> side effects in the kobject subsystem.
>
> What is the story?
We need to obtain our own device number and then patch the driver. It'd 
be great if someone else wants to look into this.
 -- Keir


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