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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Xen 4.1 PVOPS 3.0.0-RC1 VGA Console
> >What have you been using for 2.6.39?
> >
> >Also, I'd love to hear an explanation why it is necessary, or what I
> >have to look out for on the mailing list or the LKML in order to
> >follow
> >the progress with regard to this issue.
> >
> From what I've been able to gather there has been a change in the way
> that Xen handles the host's hardware, in particular the console
> hardware. It was not sending that to the bootloader correctly, or at
> all, and so the kernel didn't see that there was a console. That is
> what I can tell, just my uninformed opinion. Konrad has a patch that
> fixes the way that Xen reports the console hardware to the kernel, but
> it looks as if it didn't make it into the 3.0-rc1 release. I just
> went to git.kernel.org and pulled up Konrad's xen repository and
> selected the stable/2.6.39.x and looked for the commit entitled "xen:
> allow enable use of VGA console on dom0" which was on May 31st. I
> clicked on the commitdiff page and then downloaded the patch from the
> link at the top of the generated page. I used that patch to enable
> the VGA console on my dom0, worked like a champ, but I don't know if
> there is an issue that kept it from being commited in the mainline. I
> hope this helped.
No issues. Just missed it in the initial list of patches that went for
3.0. Will be there in 3.1, or you can use the stable/2.6.39.x tree that
has that patch and some other ones.
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