Console: introduce console=none command line parameter Currenty, not specifying 'console=' on the command line causes Xen to default to 'vga'. Alternativly, the user can explicitly specifiy 'console=vga|com1|com2'. However, there is no way to specify that neither vga nor serial should be used. Specifying 'console=' does have the effect that neither vga nor serial is set up, but at the cost of an "Bad console= option ''" warning. Therefore, expliticly support a 'console=none' option which does not set up vga and does not set up serial, but does not trigger the bad console warning. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper diff -r a2a8089b1ffb xen/drivers/char/console.c --- a/xen/drivers/char/console.c +++ b/xen/drivers/char/console.c @@ -549,6 +549,8 @@ void __init console_init_preirq(void) p++; if ( !strncmp(p, "vga", 3) ) vga_init(); + else if ( !strncmp(p, "none", 4) ) + continue; else if ( strncmp(p, "com", 3) || (sercon_handle = serial_parse_handle(p)) == -1 ) {