Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch 3] Xen core patch : runtime VT console disable | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:31 +0000 | From | Ian Pratt <> |
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> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes: > > > > +int console_use_vt = 1; > > > > Should this not have static scope? > > I'd like to have that one globally visible, so that code somewhere in > arch/{xen|um} can enable/disable that at boot time depending on the > virtual machine configuration.
Yep, that's why we need it global. In arch/xen/i386/kernel/setup.c we set it to zero if the virtual machine doesn't have access to the console hardware.
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