Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 17:37:25 +0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Default Xen PVM console? Message-ID: <d763ac660905240237x2b82e074of0b7c71310f81a97@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090524091436.GR1271@hoeg.nl> References: <d763ac660905232026n6542fd17k8f6c8625543be4fa@mail.gmail.com> <20090524091436.GR1271@hoeg.nl>
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2009/5/24 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>: > * Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: >> * Modify the xenconsole driver to attach to ttyv0 (via a kernel >> environment variable) so /etc/ttys doesn't need modifying (but this >> may confuse tools that assumes /dev/ttyvX == syscons.) > > 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. It sounds like I should just stick to modifying etc/ttys then. I'll see about getting consensus on the right way of doing that and then do it in the next couple days. Thanks, Adrianhome | help
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