Re: [PATCH 08/10] osv: add Xen console basic driver

2017-01-23 Thread 'Sergiy Kibrik' via OSv Development
On 01/22/2017 02:30 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote: Looks reasonable. But there is something I don't understand - why do you call this in the commit message an "early console"? What is supposed to happen later - will you have an ISA serial port, or VGA, or something else? What prevents you from using

Re: [PATCH 08/10] osv: add Xen console basic driver

2017-01-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
Looks reasonable. But there is something I don't understand - why do you call this in the commit message an "early console"? What is supposed to happen later - will you have an ISA serial port, or VGA, or something else? What prevents you from using that thing also early? (e.g., in x64, for the "e

[PATCH 08/10] osv: add Xen console basic driver

2017-01-20 Thread 'Sergiy Kibrik' via OSv Development
Primitive driver that uses HYPERVISOR_console_io hypercall to provide early console. Signed-off-by: Sergiy Kibrik --- drivers/xenconsole.cc | 36 drivers/xenconsole.hh | 31 +++ 2 files changed, 67 insertions(+) create mode 10064