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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2007-10-22 11:03:39 +1000 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2007-10-23 15:49:55 +1000 |
| commit | 31610434bc3523c0b01a10917a1185096a03c4c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b349e73a16e5ba997e0b80adec04f6bc0139163 /drivers/char/Kconfig | |
| parent | e467cde238184d1b0923db2cd61ae1c5a6dc15aa (diff) | |
| download | linux-31610434bc3523c0b01a10917a1185096a03c4c8.tar.bz2 | |
Virtio console driver
This is an hvc-based virtio console driver. It's suboptimal becuase
hvc expects to have raw access to interrupts and virtio doesn't assume
that, so it currently polls.
There are two solutions: expose hvc's "kick" interface, or wean off hvc.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/Kconfig | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig index 65491103e0fb..bf18d757b876 100644 --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig @@ -613,6 +613,10 @@ config HVC_XEN help Xen virtual console device driver +config VIRTIO_CONSOLE + bool + select HVC_DRIVER + config HVCS tristate "IBM Hypervisor Virtual Console Server support" depends on PPC_PSERIES |