Subject: Re: xen and pms resets
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Marcin M. Jessa <yazzy@yazzy.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 06/18/2007 21:44:49
On Jun 18, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> 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 ?

I can't recall seeing the logo before.
And it never messed up the console. Now it seems like the console has  
a different resolution.
The font is smaller and it looks like it's a different one too .
I am talking about VGA.


Marcin Michal Jessa
http://www.yazzy.org/