[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH, RFC] linux Potential clean up of console transition
Keir Fraser wrote: > On 04/12/2008 22:22, "Bill Burns" <bburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Below is a crude little loop that could be used to >> avoid the issue by outputting newlines to push >> the beginning of dom0's output to the bottom of >> the screen. Other suggestions are welcome. Note >> is uses KERN_ERR since "quiet" blocks output >> at the default printk level. > > I think it's better for Xen to clear the screen when it relinquishes the > console. I've checked in a patch to do that. It still leaves the screen > uncleared if the 'keep vga' option is specified to Xen (that's the mode > where Xen tries to share with dom0, for debugging purposes). In that mode it > seems unwise to clear screen data when we don't have to. > > Jan talked about orig_x and orig_y but we don't actually pass such data to > dom0 for vesa consoles, so there's no trivial solution there. I think what > we have now is fine, since debuggability is still available by specifying > that Xen share the vga console with dom0. > Cool, thanks! Bill > -- Keir > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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