Re: com* at acpi? in amd64/GENERIC

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 12:48:56PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 01:45:08PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> > I just noticed that 'com* at acpi?' is commented out in amd64/GENERIC.
> > Is there a technical reason for that?
> > 
> > I would like to uncomment it, to make the serial ports available that
> > are found on IBM Anyplace Kiosk systems.
> 
> there will be problems if it attaches the serial port used by the hypervisor
> for its serial console.
> That's also why com0 is commented out (if you setup the hypervisor to use
> com1 as serial console, you have to rebuild a kernel).

Ops, I don't know why I read XEN3_DOM0 instead of GENERIC.
please ignore

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