From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 24 09:37:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B312106566C; Sun, 24 May 2009 09:37:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f105.google.com (mail-qy0-f105.google.com [209.85.221.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D6C38FC08; Sun, 24 May 2009 09:37:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so3958414qyk.3 for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 02:37:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kklil3SicdM/PqiCTERrQXDmRELqG4hNmNjhW9yOaSE=; b=p5s1xyUzJ2a3ZyRCYKcqNWPlIAXFUu+kiR23rh5ruo8RpSIEK/8876bO2X119Y43A9 Ui8erLDINOx23SgtF8rjHtp8E36z6/ofQ7AdNl+u2xP30+MjTb8CoVP8j2iG03F/XQYW igvIl/NG2Pe2jVPKOl0L9QosJ8LMskM/fkaU8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=jHS7GpmXgB9fCRoIN7+ByuK6ci8seq7ThZwp68BdquTYYkDy9n7B9e9vSfmNDH1TBM e56oW23aMsFZEpwc4xmjd76dAnFD1/VPoiI9a7o3k+TVfGWaXWzjx/BgASfI+v7TvpZF qQHA2tpHwn/nzup8hrQKJwg8rp+R3CSOlvdeY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.82.12 with SMTP id z12mr1895575qck.59.1243157845589; Sun, 24 May 2009 02:37:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090524091436.GR1271@hoeg.nl> References: <20090524091436.GR1271@hoeg.nl> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 17:37:25 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: a25681193ad9f50a Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Ed Schouten Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Default Xen PVM console? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 09:37:26 -0000 2009/5/24 Ed Schouten : > * Adrian Chadd 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, Adrian