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Re: [Xen-devel] testing 32bit PAE pv_ops dom0...

To: "Marc - A. Dahlhaus" <mad@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] testing 32bit PAE pv_ops dom0...
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:17:43 +0200
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 06:45:59PM +0100, Marc - A. Dahlhaus wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i had no luck in booting 32bit PAE pv_ops dom0 on xen-3.4-unstable so far...
> Booting the bzImage on bare Metal works like a charm (it's even stable 
> under high load), but booting the vmlinux over xen gives just a jump of 
> the cursor to the top left corner after the last messages from the 
> hypervisor. My Test-Box (Dell XPS-720) lacks a serial port so i can't 
> check if it's just a vga issue.
> 
> I have most xen related options configured as modules maybe that might 
> be the problem. I'll try to check that out over the next week.
> 
> Next thing i'll try is to use xen-3.3.1 hypervisor to check that it's 
> not hypervisor related.
> I also try to dig out some older Boxes on which 3.3.1 runs at the moment 
> and try if it actually prints something to a serial console...
> 

VGA console is not currently working in pv_ops dom0 patches. At least I
haven't figured out how to make it work.

Serial console works for me. 

There seems to be some problems with IRQ routing (?).. and thus ahci and 
ata_piix
drivers don't seem to work currently. 

Hopefully next week we can get some debugging done when Jeremy is back.

-- Pasi

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