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RE: [Xen-devel] Xen on ES7000 x86_64 take 2

To: "Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh" <aravindh.puthiyaparambil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Xen on ES7000 x86_64 take 2
From: Jerone Young <jyoung5@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:23:07 -0500
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I sent a patch on the list last week that removes the use of the NX bit
from Xen. Could you try it out. I've attached it to this email.


On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:59 -0400, Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh wrote:
> As of now there is no BIOS option to enable it. :-(
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nakajima, Jun [mailto:jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:52 PM
> > To: Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Magolan, John F; Subrahmanian, Raj; Davis, Jason; Vessey, Bruce A
> > Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Xen on ES7000 x86_64 take 2
> > 
> > Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh wrote:
> > > I am still trying to bring Xen up on the ES7000 x86_64. I have a
> > > feeling that the NX/XD is disabled on the system and it is tripping
> > > things up.
> > >
> > > Jun, could you please confirm this? Here is the output you had asked
> > > from me sometime ago. The complete boot output is included below.
> > >
> > > (XEN) CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20000800 00000000
> > > 00000000 00004595 00000000 00000000
> > 
> > Yes, it's disabled. 20000800 should become 20100800. Is there any BIOS
> > setup to enable it?
> > 
> > Jun
> > ---
> > Intel Open Source Technology Center
> > 
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Aravindh
> > >
> > >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Nakajima, Jun [mailto:jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx]
> > >> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:11 AM
> > >> To: Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> Cc: Magolan, John F; Subrahmanian, Raj; Davis, Jason; Vessey, Bruce
> A
> > >> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Xen on ES7000 x86_64
> > >>
> > >> Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh wrote:
> > >>> I am trying to bring Xen up on the ES7000 x86_64 box. I have some
> of
> > >>> my patches along with Don Fry's per-cpu-timer patch. I have
> included
> > >>> the debug output. I am wondering if this is similar to Bug#75 or
> if
> > >>> it is a different problem altogether.
> > >>
> > >> Is it possbile NX/XD is disabled? Can you try
> > >> #define NOISY_CAPS 1
> > >> in xen/arch/x86/cpu/common.c and report the line like:
> > >>
> > >> (XEN) CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100800 00000000
> > >> 00000000 000 065bd 00000000 00000001
> > >>
> > >> Jun
> > >> ---
> > >> Intel Open Source Technology Center
> > 
> > 
> 
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Jerone Young
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