On 5/23/11 2:38 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Sasha Levin<levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
@@ -511,7 +515,13 @@ int kvm_cmd_run(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
kvm->nrcpus = nrcpus;
memset(real_cmdline, 0, sizeof(real_cmdline));
- strcpy(real_cmdline, "notsc noapic noacpi pci=conf1 console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=serial");
+ strcpy(real_cmdline, "notsc noapic noacpi pci=conf1");
+ if (vnc) {
+ strcat(real_cmdline, " video=vesafb console=tty0");
+ vidmode = 0x312;
+ } else {
+ strcat(real_cmdline, " console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=serial");
+ }
Hm, i think all the kernel parameter handling code wants to move into driver
specific routines as well. Something like:
serial_init(kvm, real_cmdline);
where serial_init() would append to real_cmdline if needed.
This removes a bit of serial-driver specific knowledge from kvm-run.c.
Same goes for the VESA driver and the above video mode flag logic.
@@ -597,6 +607,9 @@ int kvm_cmd_run(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
kvm__init_ram(kvm);
+ if (vnc)
+ vesa__init(kvm);
Shouldnt vesa__init() itself know about whether it's active (i.e. the 'vnc'
flag is set) and return early if it's not set?
That way this could become more encapsulated and self-sufficient:
vesa__init(kvm);
With no VESA driver specific state exposed to the generic kvm_cmd_run()
function.
Ideally kvm_cmd_run() hould just be a series of:
serial_init(kvm, real_cmdline);
vesa_init(kvm, real_cmdline);
...
initialization routines. Later on even this could be removed: using section
tricks we can put init functions into a section and drivers could register
their init function like initcall(func) functions are registered within the
kernel. kvm_cmd_run() could thus iterate over that (build time constructed)
section like this:
extern initcall_t __initcall_start[], __initcall_end[], __early_initcall_end[];
static void __init do_initcalls(void)
{
initcall_t *fn;
for (fn = __early_initcall_end; fn< __initcall_end; fn++)
do_one_initcall(*fn);
}
and would not actually have *any* knowledge about what drivers were built in.
Currently it's fine to initialize everything explicitly - but this would be the
long term model to work towards ...
Prasad, didn't you have patches to do exactly that?
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