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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,


Adrian



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