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Re: [Xen-users] xen 3.0 testing ACPI problems / no PCI functionality

To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] xen 3.0 testing ACPI problems / no PCI functionality
From: Patrick <patrick_@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 00:32:55 +0100
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First of all .. as I said ACPI was the reason why my mashine was constantly rebooting as - if ACPI enabled - xen does did not detect the amount of RAM properly and thus is always claiming it wasnt enough. Sencondly, the xen kernel config is not that much different to mine .. my kernel is just more lightweight tho.
...
ACPI isnt the main problem, could you please also refer to the second problem, which is of much more importance to me?


best regards,
Patrick

Ian Pratt wrote:


I just encountered that the xen 3.0 testing (from the mercurial
repository) will not work if I have ACPI compiled into the kernel.
Although the kernel will build properly, I cant boot it, as xen is constantly moaning about the amount of memory reservated for dom0 and thus is rebooting again and again (the appropiate settings are given and correct).

Any reason not to be using our -xen kernel config? It has ACPI and sems
to work fine for the almost everyone.

Ian

I confirmed this by NOT compiling ACPI into my kernel at all .. then xen boots up fine... BUT then I do not have PCI functionality at all (which means lspci is empty and all my PCI devices do not work, even not if I try to load the appropiate driver manually). Again the settings (config) are compiled in and correctly set (which simply means I wasnt a jerk and forgot compiling PCI support in tho). I am using sis5513 as mainboard chipset and another confirmation on my side, as far as the problerm above's concerned, is that I tried exactly the same kernel config (without the xen config symbols of course) and compiled a vanilla 2.6.12.6 kernel manually .. it boots up fine and PCI support is also given, while doing the same with a xen-patched kernel will not work at all and results in pci non-functionality.

Any further confirmation about the two problems I mentioned above would be appreciated.


best regards,
Patrick


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