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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4.2 hypervisor crash, Cannot acces

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] Xen 3.4.2 hypervisor crash, Cannot access memory beyond end of bootstrap direct-map area, Unknown interrupt
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:54:44 +0200
Cc: Martin Kraus <lists_mk@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Gabor Szilagyi <szilagyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 04:40:54PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 29/01/2010 15:50, "Gabor Szilagyi" <szilagyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > So the bug is only shows up with 32bit hypervisor....not with 64....
> > this is why some people could use GRUB2 (most people I guess goes 64bit
> > these days...).
> > 
> > Pasi, maybe the above is a good bit for your Wiki pages... would have
> > saved me almost 2 weeks tinkering (I tried all kinds of things before
> > asking the question here on the list).
>

I already added a note of this to the wiki pages.
 
> If it pushes people to the 64-bit hypervisor then all the better. That is
> what gets the lion's share of the testing, and should have better
> performance too. But I will help someone get 32-bit Xen working with GRUB2
> if they are really stuck and are capable of applying, building and testing
> my patches.
> 

I think it's worth fixing, many distros will start using GRUB2 sooner or later..
Hopefully someone can test the patches.

-- Pasi


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