Le Mercredi 21 Juin 2006 16:54, Alex Williamson a écrit : > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 16:30 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote: > > Le Mercredi 21 Juin 2006 15:55, Tristan Gingold a écrit : > > [Resent - using serial console on linux was not working] > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > this patch allows the use of xen console in input (irq enable). > > > You need to set parameter xencons on command line and to disable serial > > > in linux kernel. > > > > You may also want to set xencons on command line when using vga console. > > At the risk of upsetting transparent paravirtualization, should we be > setting CONFIG_XEN_DISABLE_SERIAL in our buildconfig? I'd really like > to see some way to do it dynamically so we can still build the 8250 > driver into a kernel for a serial console on bare metal, but getting a > working serial console is currently too confusing. Thoughts? Thanks, I'd prefer statu quo. It seems Fedora ia64 doesn't include 8250 drivers into the kernel.
I am still looking for how dynamically enabling/disabling the 8250. At this time linux can't alloc the IRQ line, but the failure is ignored :-( Maybe we may add a command line option for 8250_acpi ? Tristan. _______________________________________________ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel
