Re: Where is netbsd-XEN3_DOM0.gz

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

On 6/22/18 09:56, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> On 2018-06-22 09:07 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > I saw your commit - it would be nice to leave the agp line in, commented
> > out, and have a comment with the PR.  While we've been getting "booting
> > with agp fails" reports, I suspect we'll now get "agp doesn't attach"
> > reports from some subset of the currently-uncounted multitudes who are
> > running the XEN3_DOM0 kernel without running into this bug.
>
> Are you just assuming that AGP works for some people or have you
> actually seen it work somewhere.  That might be a good datapoint for the
> PR.  My impression is that it always has to be turned off but obviously
> I only have data on failures, not successes.

I have not seen it myself.  However, many people have been booting dom0 
kernels on desktopish boxes and notebooks, and AFAIK the agp line has 
been in the dom0 kernel for a very long time, and I've seen people 
talking about running X.  A dom0 attaches pci stuff more or less the 
same way as native, and it is very rare to have "foo works on native but 
not dom0" for pci drivers.   So the default assumption is that it's ok.

I have run dom0 kernels, without X, going back to 2005, and never had to 
comment out agp to get them to boot.