RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [PATCH] fixed serial console support

["Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>]

 >    I looked a little bit at how 8250 can be left enabled and not
> interfere w/ xen console.  I don't think it's as trivial as I was
> hoping.  Even if we were to hide the specific UART xen is 
> using, I think
> there would still be a naming conflict for ttyS0 for any of the other
> UARTs.  Does anybody know why xen tries to make a fake serial line for
> dom0?  Seems like it would be easier if we did something like 
> USB serial
> devices and made up something like ttyXEN0.  I suppose it's 
> probably for
> compatibility, but unfortunately the xen console is setup 
> after the real
> serial ports are enumerated, and even if that is corrected, 
> ttyS0 isn't
> properly reserved and the serial layer blows up trying to 
> overwrite it.

It might be good to post these questions to xen-devel.

Dan

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