Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 2/3] libxl: add support for channels

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Scott writes ("Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] libxl: add support for channels"):
> On 23 Jun 2014, at 15:52, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Why should an additional channel not be handled by xenconsoled and
> > logged ?
> 
> I believe the current situation (unchanged by these patches) is that
> xenconsoled is only capable of handling console 0, [...]

Yes.  I guess what I'm saying is that this is IMO a deficiency.
Obviously there's no need for you to rectify this right now but we
should leave space to extend the API in case we decide to fix it
later.

> My plan was to build these âchannelâ things on top of the existing
> additional console support, which happens to rely on qemu. It would
> be nice to teach xenconsoled about these new channels/consoles but I
> thought Iâd try a simple implementation first. This should all be
> hidden behind the interface so we can change the implementation
> later.

Right.  One of the reasons I'm asking these questions is that because
your document described all the layers at once, I wasn't sure which
parts of the text were parts of the libxl-user-visible specification
and which were implementation details.

Thanks,
Ian.

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