Re: [PATCH 00 of 31] x86: unification and xen updates

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 08:11 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:36 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi Ingo,
> >>
> >> This is a great big pile of x86 unification and Xen bugfix patches.
> >> They build and boot for me on 64-bit and 32-bit (PAE and non-PAE).
> >>     
> >
> > FWIW I tested in a PAE Xen guest on 32 and 64 bit h/v and it was fine
> > including running ddcprobe which was my most recent issue. I can't see
> > why this would fix it though.
> >   
> 
> I'm actually having problem booting 32-on-64 hvm guests.  Specifically 
> the Fedora installer crashes fairly early on:
[snip]
> 
> Seen anything like that?

I practically never boot HVM Linux guests of any sort so no.

> > I thought for a second when you said it booted on 64 bit you meant 64
> > bit Xen guest, do you know how that stuff is going?
> >   
> 
> Last I heard, they got something booting, but it wasn't very clean.  I 
> need to resync with Eduardo.  A lot of these changes were intended to 
> make that effort easier, but it would be nice to confirm ;)  Doesn't 
> look like http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=xen-pvops-64.git;a=summary has 
> changed much lately.

Thanks, will keep an eye on that tree.

> 
>     J
> 
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Ian Campbell

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