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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Add full evtchn mechanism forxen/ia64

To: "Williamson, Alex (Linux Kernel Dev)" <alex.williamson@xxxxxx>, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Add full evtchn mechanism forxen/ia64
From: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 07:37:37 -0700
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>    While not ideal, I think we should take the xen/x86 approach and
> disable serial access from dom0.  At some point maybe we can 
> add support
> to hide only the physical UART used by xen and allow dom0 to 
> access any
> others that might be available.  Such a feature would need to be aware
> of both I/O port and MMIO UARTs and handle UARTs described in ACPI
> namespace.  Thanks,

Please try to turn off the dom0 console dynamically rather than
via config option.  It would be a shame to lose transparent
paravirtualization just to turn off the console.

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