Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] PATCH: optionnaly enable xen console with irq/input.

[Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>]

Le Jeudi 22 Juin 2006 14:39, Alex Williamson a Ãcrit :
> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 09:16 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > One more thought.
> >
> > I think the current status (ie using linux serial driver) is OK:
> > * linux works well
> > * we have Xen messages
> >
> > The only drawback is Xen do not disable output if vga console is used (Am
> > I correct ?)
> >
> > I think only developper are interested in Xen keytable.  If a developper
> > want to use keytable, s/he has to rebuild the kernel.
>
> Hi Tristan,
>
>    My main concern with our current status is that it's difficult for a
> user to configure the serial ports.  On my system, I end up passing
> console=ttyS8 xencons=ttyS8 to the dom0 kernel to get things working
> correctly.  The 8 value is somewhat arbitrary and works because our -xen
> kernel happens to only claim the first 8 ttyS devices.  How are we
> supposed to document bizarre settings like that?  Is this an area where
> we really want to have a whole chapter of differences versus x86 in the
> user documentation?
Yes this is very annoying.

>    I also don't agree that the Xen keytable is only for developers.  It
> may be that this is an important debugging tool and therefore required
> to be able to support a real customer.  I'd rather see this feature on
> by default so it's there for in-the-field debugging later, and so that
> the xen/ia64 community uses it and makes sure it works.  Thanks,
Good argument.

Tristan.

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