D'Arcy Cain <darcy%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes: > On 2018-06-21 09:03 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: >>> Obviously no need for AGP. >> >> True, and no need for a vast array of things - basically all video, all >> sound. > > I'm just saying that Xen servers aren't a good choice for a gaming > machine, at least not in the DOM0. But that's not the question. If someone has a box that works for whatever graphics they want, then running it as a dom0 instead of bare is a reasonable thing to do. That enables also running a domU. Right now this is not feasible for some because of the agp bug (and harder for those that don't have the bug, because of the workaround), and it's suboptimal due to not having SMP. >> I wonder if anyone has tested with netbsd-8 or -current, and with Xen > > I stumbled on this issue on a current box. That's good to know; would be good to drop that in the PR (just the versions of xen and netbsd). 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.
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