On 22 Mar 2006, at 08:43, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> This provides a bootstrap and ongoing emergency console which is >> intended to be available from very early during boot and at all times >> thereafter, in contrast with alternatives such as UDP-based syslogd, >> or logging in via ssh. The protocol is based on a simple shared-memory >> ring buffer. > > there already exist early consoles. Please just use that infrastructure > instead. By 'early console' I don't mean it's an alternative to the early_printk infrastructure. It's simply an easy way to characters out of the guest when other alternatives (such as using the virtual network device) are unusable. -- Keir
