Re: [Xen-devel] console questions

[Aron Griffis <aron@xxxxxx>]

Alex,

linux-2.6.18-xen.hg cset 153:12c399692d44 changed the xencons default
to xvc for both dom0 and domU.  I believe this ia64 patch is
appropriate though I'm slightly unsure because everything seems to
work correctly, even without it!  Nonetheless, I built and boot-tested
dom0 with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Aron Griffis <aron@xxxxxx>

# HG changeset patch
# User Aron Griffis <aron@xxxxxx>
# Date 1186527819 14400
# Node ID 99297c7bc9d945f3a902db9324efae438c64e316
# Parent  840b9df48b6a4f0f569963dba01885bde2946b6b
xencons default is now xvc for dom0/domU

diff -r 840b9df48b6a -r 99297c7bc9d9 arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c  Tue Aug 07 09:37:41 2007 +0100
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c  Tue Aug 07 19:03:39 2007 -0400
@@ -560,17 +560,12 @@ setup_arch (char **cmdline_p)
                
                /*
                 * If a console= is NOT specified, we assume using the
-                * xencons console is desired.  By default, this is ttyS0
-                * for dom0 and tty0 for domU.
+                * xencons console is desired.  By default this is xvc0 
+                * for both dom0 and domU
                 */
                if (!strstr(*cmdline_p, "console=")) {
-                       char *p, *q, name[5];
+                       char *p, *q, name[5] = "xvc";
                        int offset = 0;
-
-                       if (is_initial_xendomain())
-                               strncpy(name, "ttyS", 4);
-                       else
-                               strncpy(name, "tty", 3);
 
                        p = strstr(*cmdline_p, "xencons=");
 


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