Re: [Xen-devel] Xen ARM - Exposing a PL011 to the guest

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 06:45:50PM +0530, Bhupinder Thakur wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, xenconsoled supports only PV console. To support one
> additional pl011 console, some of the data structures in struct domain
> and certain functions such as buffer_append, ring_free_bytes, etc.
> will have to be be scaled to support now two types of consoles.
> 
> Some changes are required in xenconsole client (client/maiun.c) and
> tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c to support one additional pl011 console.
> 

Note that we're in the process of splitting xl out of libxl directory.
Please keep an eye on xen.git staging branch.

> I have done the above-mentioned changes and can now connect to both PV
> and pl011 consoles.
> 
> Command for connecting to pl011 console:
> 
> xl console -t vpl011 <dom_name> connects to the pl011 console.
> 
> Currently, the console type definitions such as LIBXL_CONSOLE_TYPE_PV
> are defined in /usr/include/_libxl_types.h, which is not part of the
> xen tree. How should I add a new console type in this header file?
> 

See libxl_types.idl. _libxl_types.h is autogenerated from that file.

Wei.

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