On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Hendrik Brueckner <brueck...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> I will check this again for my hvc_iucv back-end. Meanwhile a found > an old thread discussing the same issue. It covers some differences > between console and ttys which actually does not matter for hvc-backend > because of the shared put_chars() routine. > > You can read the thread on lkml.org: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/15/149 I started that thread. After much soul searching, we came to the conclusion that HVC is not compatible with hypervisors that return BUSY on writes. So I threw out my HVC driver and rewrote it as a standard console and TTY driver. That driver is waiting to be included in the 3.1 kernel. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
