From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 24 03:26:30 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 E950D106564A; Sun, 24 May 2009 03:26:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDCC8FC0A; Sun, 24 May 2009 03:26:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so1416357qwe.7 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 20:26:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Grg4/cC1CDCIdCUCG2JGcPCeR/lNAMfpjgxnsVrBqoc=; b=VauQwF9JLbMI+n+1/JmKnqMbuHaU9hTsmqFH0nHF9dTno+A26YevHqLtFF/ksYn7mm m9HJ/8phRREZXu0/Onym26WvQAfc5yxObwg1Naq8KAywBsMEO8dDn0c76DJn01h2hlbn oI1rN+HdurrdRmBkP6+N4zOgXsEubtb5u/ZdE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=XaZb5Xt5D3NTg1V3erTSWt8zRU3dIURr4E/cV0h/a1DzS7BCjhnOHnJmr6ms+i7LcP SFbz/hzfm6AMLEApITprvKbUvkD4WzgFcfX0ed9CCmZ/9uy/FNBz+L6osCfeKHdqWuEL kg8BHbBrugpIYcW5iu0YroGi5QlxfGxUxCquw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.80.21 with SMTP id r21mr1827393qck.80.1243135589998; Sat, 23 May 2009 20:26:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 11:26:29 +0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 762879009c508f53 Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: freebsd-current Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-xen@freebsd.org Subject: 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 03:26:31 -0000 G'day, I'd like to twiddle the Xen console stuff a little bit to make it easier to bootstrap a PVM. There's a couple of options I can think of: * Patch /etc/ttys to have a default "xc0" Xen console, but disabled (which makes it trivial for users / scripts to disable the syscons console and enable the xc console); * 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.) Opinions? I'd like to sneak in one of these before the release process begins for 8.0. Thanks, Adrian