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SMP patch? Was: [XenPPC] Cannot boot from local disk

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On Oct 6, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Jimi Xenidis wrote:

Kawachiya-san, thank you for the exhaustive analysis!

On Oct 6, 2006, at 7:38 AM, Kiyokuni Kawachiya wrote:

1. I could not boot our internal version which is a little bit old version,
but contains the SMP patch.
   It failed like this.
            :
Sharing PIC with Xen<6>mpic: Setting up MPIC "U3-MPIC" version 1.2 at
f8040000, max 4 CPUs
      mpic: ISU size: 124, shift: 7, mask: 7f
      mpic: Initializing for 124 sources
      mpic: Setting up HT PICs workarounds for U3/U4
      mpic:   - HT:01.0 [0xb8] vendor 1022 device 7450 has 4 irqs
      mpic:   - HT:02.0 [0xb8] vendor 1022 device 7450 has 4 irqs
      mpic:   - HT:03.0 [0xf0] vendor 1022 device 7460 has 24 irqs
      PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 8192 bytes)
      Maple: Found RTC at IO 0x1070
      Console: colour dummy device 80x25
      Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
      Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
      Memory: 185884k/196608k available (5296k kernel code, 10416k
reserved, 1240k data,

      I know this is caused by the SMP patch.

Could you synchronize the console here, there are two ways to do this:
  1) add "sync_console" to the cmdline _before_ "--"
  2) apply the follow diff
diff -r 701c68921ff3 xen/arch/powerpc/setup.c
--- a/xen/arch/powerpc/setup.c  Wed Oct 04 14:06:14 2006 -0400
+++ b/xen/arch/powerpc/setup.c  Fri Oct 06 07:54:26 2006 -0400
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ static void __init __start_xen(multiboot
     /* Hide UART from DOM0 if we're using it */
     serial_endboot();
-    console_end_sync();
+//    console_end_sync();
     domain_unpause_by_systemcontroller(dom0);
     startup_cpu_idle_loop();


Do you have output for this?
-JX

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