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    xen: Enable console tty by default in domU if it's not a dummy · 9e124fe1
    Markus Armbruster authored
    Without console= arguments on the kernel command line, the first
    console to register becomes enabled and the preferred console (the one
    behind /dev/console).  This is normally tty (assuming
    CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE is enabled, which it commonly is).
    
    This is okay as long tty is a useful console.  But unless we have the
    PV framebuffer, and it is enabled for this domain, tty0 in domU is
    merely a dummy.  In that case, we want the preferred console to be the
    Xen console hvc0, and we want it without having to fiddle with the
    kernel command line.  Commit b8c2d3df
    
    
    did that for us.
    
    Since we now have the PV framebuffer, we want to enable and prefer tty
    again, but only when PVFB is enabled.  But even then we still want to
    enable the Xen console as well.
    
    Problem: when tty registers, we can't yet know whether the PVFB is
    enabled.  By the time we can know (xenstore is up), the console setup
    game is over.
    
    Solution: enable console tty by default, but keep hvc as the preferred
    console.  Change the preferred console to tty when PVFB probes
    successfully, unless we've been given console kernel parameters.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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