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[Xen-ia64-devel] compilation xen unstable on a ia64 debian - working !

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Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] compilation xen unstable on a ia64 debian - working !
From: Peter Van Biesen <peter.vanbiesen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:34:22 +0200
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Hi everyone,

I compiled the xen-unstable.hg. This went ok, I changed my elilo.conf and 
rebooted. Booting went ok but I did not get a login prompt. I always get :

init: Id "T1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

Apparently the console line in the debian kernel gets mapped to /dev/ttyS1 
while in the xen kernel it is mapped to /dev/ttyS0 . Strange behaviour but 
fortunately my sshd was running so it was quickly fixed. 

I'll see if I get a domU running.

Thanks for the help !

Peter.

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 00:18, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:55 +0200, Peter Van Biesen wrote:
> > The build worked perfectly. However, now I'm not sure the kernel is
> > configured in the same way the debian kernel was and I suppose misses
> > some patches that were in the debian kernel.
> >
> > Do you know if the debian community is working on a stock xen kernel for
> > ia64 ?
>
>   Debian doesn't currently support Xen packages for ia64, but several
> people working on Xen/ia64 do use Debian as their base platform (me
> included).  I just added a patch to this bug to get the xen-3.0 package
> to build on ia64:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389320
>
> And opened this bug on Debian elilo:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433498
>
> That leaves the kernel (linux-2.6-xen-mckinley).  The Debian 2.6.18
> kernel has Xen support for x86.  It may not be too difficult to turn it
> on such that a dpkg-buildpackage would create a xen kernel, but you'll
> be left with an unsupported kernel and a fairly old version of Xen.
> Hopefully when xensource re-bases to a newer kernel, Debian will pull
> the changes into one of the kernels in unstable and we can have
> something a little newer.  Xen/ia64 is moving pretty fast, so if you
> want to try to use it, I would suggest using at least the 3.1 release
> from xensource.  For development, use ia64/xen-unstable.hg.  You could
> try to use the debian kernel config for your build, but you might still
> be lacking things from the Debian kernel.  Hope that helps,
>
>       Alex

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