Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 13/17] xenconsoled: add support for up to 3 secondary consoles

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Marek Marczykowski-Górecki writes ("[RFC PATCH v2 13/17] xenconsoled: add 
> support for up to 3 secondary consoles"):
> > Based on previous few commits, this adds basic support for multiple
> > consoles in xenconsoled. A static number of them - up to 3 (+ one
> > primary).
> 
> I'm confused.  I thought we already had support for multiple PV
> consoles.  Is the problem that the backend is in qemu rather than
> xenconsoled ?  I'm not sure how this patch interacts with the
> qemu-provided extra PV consoles in docs/misc/console.txt.

I haven't read this patch, but yes, it is as you wrote. Multiple PV
consoles are only suppored by QEMU, with the interface described in
docs/misc/console.txt. It could be nice to be able to support them with
xenconsoled, but we need to be careful they don't conflict. There is a
way to specify the desired console backend, either QEMU or xenconsoled,
so it shouldn't be a problem to have both backends being able to do
multiple consoles. But we wouldn't want to have a different interface
from the one described in docs/misc/console.txt, otherwise we'll break
existing guests (Linux for instance.)


> I'm afraid (as you probably predicted) I don't think this patch is
> suitable for upstream in its current form.  I can see that
> restructuring xenconsoled to be more dynamic is some work but I may be
> able to help there.
> 
> CCing Stefano, the author of docs/misc/console.txt, at his new
> address.

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