Re: Suggestions for upgrading dom0

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 07:38:17PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Greg Oster <oster%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > I did a 6.x/amd64 to 8.0/amd64 a couple of months ago.  The most
> > important thing to do is to remove this line:
> >
> >  agp*     at pchb?
> >
> > from whatever kernel config you use.  Failure to remove that line may
> > end up with a kernel that repeatedly panics, and where the panic
> > messages scroll by so quickly you can't read them to figure out what is
> > wrong.... (See port-xen/50446 -- I suspect this should be pulled up to
> > 8.0...)
> 
> I had a problem (very fuzzy now) where a 7 kernel with 6 userland --
> which should be ok -- crashed because the kernel could not load firmware
> (which had moved) for some video device.  I wonder if this is the same
> thing.

it's not. It's the kernel trying to map some PCI space, but the hypervisor
denies it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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