On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:33:01PM +0200, Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
> 
> On Jun 18, 2007, at 6:43 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:39:54PM +0200, Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
> >>>Looks like an interrupt issue; did you try playing with ACPI  
> >>>options ?
> >>
> >>As you can see below I have ACPI disabled:
> >>
> >>title Xen 3.0.4 /(HDD1)
> >>  root(hd0,e)
> >>  kernel (hd0,e)/xen.gz dom0_mem=262144 noapic acpi=off nosmp
> >>  module (hd0,e)/netbsd root=/dev/hda1 ro console=pc elevator=cfq
> >>
> >>The kernel option is disabled as well:
> >>#acpi0          at hypervisor?
> >
> >Doesn't it work if you enable acpi ?
> >I'll have to test on a box where I can disable acpi ...
> 
> I removed the acpi=off option but it did not change anything.
> I had to add it before becouse Xen did not want to start without it.
> I don't quite remember what exact version of Xen 3 required that  
> option to be defined.
> 
> The USB drives did not get powered up when I also removed the noapic  
> option
> and the nosmp option did not seem to have any effect.
> 
> Do you suggest me to recompile kernel with ACPI enabled ?

Yes, if you enable acpi in Xen it's also needed in the dom0 kernel

> 
> Btw, XEN starts with some kind of ASCI logo now and it totally
> messes up my console. Can it be switched off?
> The console is useless now.

I think it always did, so I'm not sure what changed. Are you talking about
serial or VGA ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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