On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 1:06 AM Manjukumar Harthikote Matha
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Ashfield [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, April 8, 2019 4:34 AM
> > To: Sathees Balya <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Filipe Rinaldi <[email protected]>; meta-
> > [email protected]; Manjukumar Harthikote Matha
> > <[email protected]>; nd <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [meta-virtualization] Issues with 50cdecc 
> > sysvinit-inittab_xen.inc: fix
> > hypervisor console
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 7:26 AM Sathees Balya <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Bruce,
> > >
> > > We reverted the commit "50cdecca7b2a0e1bb5eacbec132f26b802f950fc" and
> > the console starts as expected. Thanks.
> > >
>
> We should revert this commit, and we can update the patch later after testing 
> it out on different cases.

ok, I can do that. As long as you are ok with your issue popping back up!

I've pushed the revert.

Bruce

>
> Thanks,
> Manju
>
> >
> > We had already established that without the commit things start, they were
> > starting before we made that change. It was for fixing a different issue 
> > and for
> > standardizing on the use of the variable.
> >
> > I'm trying to find out if we change the startup check, if the console still 
> > works.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Sathees
> > >
> > > On 08/04/2019, 04:12, "Bruce Ashfield" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >     On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 4:11 PM Filipe Rinaldi <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >     >
> > >     > Hi,
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     > With regards commit "50cdecc sysvinit-inittab_xen.inc: fix 
> > > hypervisor
> > console"...
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     > We are having issues with this patch. When using start_getty (a 
> > > wrapper to
> > getty) it will first check if the console device is a "serial" device 
> > driver [1]. It then
> > fails because hvc0 is a "system" device, not a "serial" [2].
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     > [1] https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-
> > core/blob/master/meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit-inittab/start_getty#L11
> > >     >
> > >     > [2]
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/tt
> > y/hvc/hvc_console.c#n1036
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     > Any thoughts?
> > >
> > >     Can you confirm that if that check is removed that the console still
> > >     functions as expected ?
> > >
> > >     Rather than bouncing back and forth between fixing one issue, and
> > >     creating another, I'm tempted to just bbappend and patch the
> > >     problematic check out of the startup. But I'm not currently setup to
> > >     test the issue.
> > >
> > >     Bruce
> > >
> > >     >
> > >     >
> > >     > Cheers,
> > >     >
> > >     > Filipe
> > >     >
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