Xen devel - Feb 2006 - [PATCH] linux: make xencons separately configurable and modular

This is a little more involved because there had been hard calls into the
console code from reboot.c. Only compile
tested so far.

Jan


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On 28 Feb 2006, at 16:49, Jan Beulich wrote:
> This is a little more involved because there had been hard calls into 
> the console code from reboot.c. Only compile
> tested so far.
Why would you want to make the console driver modular? It''s the only 
way for domains to get early boot information out to the user.

  -- Keir


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>>> Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk> 28.02.06 18:33:23
>>>
>
>On 28 Feb 2006, at 16:49, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> This is a little more involved because there had been hard calls into 
>> the console code from reboot.c. Only compile
>> tested so far.
>
>Why would you want to make the console driver modular? It''s the
only
>way for domains to get early boot information out to the user.
Right. But dom0 doesn''t necessarily need this early on, nor would a
kernel running on micro-Xen need it.

Jan

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