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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Real-mode bug with AMD, gPXE, and 32-bit rep movs

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Real-mode bug with AMD, gPXE, and 32-bit rep movs
From: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:21:37 +0100
Cc: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Huang2, Wei" <Wei.Huang2@xxxxxxx>, Michael Brown <mcb30@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@xxxxxx>
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That seems to have done it.  Now I can go back to what I was going to
do in the first place, which is test my new scheduler on an 8-core
system... :-)

 -George

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 31/03/2009 04:56, "Michael Brown" <mcb30@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> It's a bug in the BIOS; it should either not advertise PMM, or it should
>> follow the PMM spec and call the initialisation entry point in flat real
>> mode.
>
> George, can you please test with xen-unstable:19477. This should give all
> our real-mode segments 4GB limits, and thus fix our PMM support.
>
>  -- Keir
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