build-sys: Inject hvc0 by default#1786
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This pull request introduces a default kernel argument console=hvc0 to improve debugging capabilities by ensuring a virtual console is available. The change is implemented by adding a new configuration file in the configure-rootfs script. While the intent is good, the script modification has potential robustness issues. My review provides a suggestion to ensure the target directory exists and to use file overwrite instead of append, making the script idempotent and preventing potential failures.
In order to debug failures more reliably we really always want a virtual console. It turns out the Fedora kernel configs for a while have done https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/commit/9a0d7ce2af11ef7b9a3bc3073e13dc9983b7e245 which means hvc0 is available from very early boot. I am probably going to argue to do this in all Fedora derivatives by default soon but let's start here. Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
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In order to debug failures more reliably we really always want a virtual console.
It turns out the Fedora kernel configs for a while have done https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/commit/9a0d7ce2af11ef7b9a3bc3073e13dc9983b7e245 which means hvc0 is available from very early boot.
I am probably going to argue to do this in all Fedora derivatives by default soon but let's start here.