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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] VP model doesn't pass the whole ACPI table

To: Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] VP model doesn't pass the whole ACPI table to dom0
From: Kouya SHIMURA <kouya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 20:34:30 +0900
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Hi Tristan,

Thanks for comment.
Sorry for my assumption. I revised a patch.
Yeah, this is tedious... but becomes more small. :-)

Kouya

Signed-off-by Kouya Shimura <kouya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Tristan Gingold writes:
 > Le Lundi 05 Juin 2006 11:12, Kouya SHIMURA a écrit :
 > > Hi,
 > >
 > > I can't get VP enabled dom0 to boot up on Fujitsu's PRIMEQUEST.
 > >
 > > The cause is that xen passes only one page of ACPI tables to dom0.
 > > PRIMEQUEST has ACPI tables across page boundary and dom0 can't read
 > > some ACPI table.
 > >
 > > Attached patches fix it.
 > > But actually I'm not familiar with ACPI and I assume the ACPI tables
 > > are placed in one place contiguously.
 > > Does anyone know my assumption is correct?
 > I don't think so.
 > 
 > Your patch looks a little bit kludgy, but it is very small and I *don't* 
 > want 
 > to prevent Xen to run on your machine.
 > 
 > IMHO the best approach is to walk on every ACPI table.  But this can be 
 > tedious...
 > 
 > Tristan.
 > 
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