On Sun, 24 May 2009, Scott Long wrote: >>> Please don't. Someone on IRC told me Xen also has some framebuffer >>> feature. Say, someone would port syscons to Xen, the naming would conflict >>> with the console device node. /dev/xc0 is good enough. I even think it >>> should have been called ttyx0, not xc0. >> >> Given that there will be increasing levels of support for "pass-through" >> hardware access in virtual machine environments and a trend in the >> direction of virtualization-friendly hardware, we shouldn't preclude the >> possibility of something a lot closer to syscons working inside of Xen in >> the future. This means we should leave the syscons device names open so >> that syscons can claim them if desired. > > HVM mode already supports "pass-through" with syscons working in it. That is > orthogonal to the discussion of supporting the native virtualization > features of Xen. Not sure I follow this comment: what I'm saying is that the Xen-specific console device should not use the same device names as syscons, so that the two can coexist in a single installation. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of CambridgeReceived on Sun May 24 2009 - 09:46:27 UTC
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