On 04/12/2018 04:06 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Jürgen, Boris,
>
> looks like commit 47b02f4c62 ("x86/xen: add tty0 and hvc0 as
> preferred consoles for dom0") doesn't get us quite there yet - non-
> kernel boot output (and a console prompt) still doesn't appear on
> the screen.
Hmm.. I get both kernel and systemd output, as well as console prompt,
on both serial and screen.
Is there a specific set of console-related boot options that causes this
problem?
-boris
> For now I'm using
>
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten_pv.c
> @@ -1409,8 +1409,11 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init xen_sta
> xen_boot_params_init_edd();
> }
>
> - add_preferred_console("tty", 0, NULL);
> + if (!boot_params.screen_info.orig_video_isVGA)
> + add_preferred_console("tty", 0, NULL);
> add_preferred_console("hvc", 0, NULL);
> + if (boot_params.screen_info.orig_video_isVGA)
> + add_preferred_console("tty", 0, NULL);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PCI
> /* PCI BIOS service won't work from a PV guest. */
>
> but that looks more like a hack, not the least because
> - orig_video_isVGA is always set for Dom0 (independent of whether
> there actually is any VGA, let alone the question of whether there's
> any monitor connected),
> - XenoLinux iirc had non-kernel output (but not the prompt) appear
> on both the screen and the serial console (albeit that may have
> been only with older Linux, i.e. I'm not certain this not being the
> case anymore is an effect of the Xen-specific pieces being
> different).
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks, Jan
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