Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Virtual console driver on /dev/xvc0

[Jimi Xenidis <jimix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Amos Waterland wrote:

> The below is the least invasive approach I can find, and works well on
> my PPC64 blades: I can boot the exact same kernel on bare hardware and
> as a dom0.  I am sure there will be distro concerns (such as
> /etc/inittab and /etc/securetty), but I'd like to get the ball rolling
> with this initial submission.
Most modern distros are getty'ing /dev/console, and your logic wires  
that up correctly.
So for recent kernels I do not see why we would want to maintain the  
older ones.
Kier, perhaps we can make this:
  - CONFIG_XEN_XVC=y to make it the default
  - CONFIG_XEN_XVC_ONLY=y and depricate the ttySn and ttyn

And any distro that is broken by XVC can keep the backward compat.
-JX


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