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[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [PATCH] Only one serial console on Tiger2

To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [PATCH] Only one serial console on Tiger2
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:05:52 +0900
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:01:06AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 19:30 +0900, Horms wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> > 
> > I did a bit of research and it seems that the Tiger2, like the Tiger4,
> > only has one serial port. So we can use common code for both of them,
> > having com1=0x2f8.
> > 
> > Tested on a Tiger 2 with the following command line, which is only
> > needed for the linux dom0 console -- xen and linux dom0 boot messages
> > come over serial anyway:
> > 
> > "-- console=ttyS0"
> 
> Hi Simon,
> 
>    Great, thanks for investigating.  Once com1 is set to 0x2f8, you
> actually shouldn't even need to specify a console= for dom0.  This patch
> will automatically set your preferred console to the xencons device:
> 
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/xen-ia64-unstable.hg?cs=81c4f90695a8
> 
> Of course if you want to get the console mirrored on both VGA and
> xencons as your previous cmdline did, you'll still need to specify both.
> Thanks,

It seems that if I don't set console=ttyS0 then my user-space doesn't
know to use the serial console. But that could be more a limitation of
my user space than anything else.

Everything else seems fine.

-- 
Horms
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