RE: Ubuntu 10.04 stuck in detect_extended_topology()

["AP Xen" <apxeng@gmail.com>]

This really blows :( But it looks like a good excuse to move to Xen4!

Thanks,
AP

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pasik@iki.fi]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:02 PM
> To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
> Cc: AP Xen; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Ubuntu 10.04 stuck in
> detect_extended_topology()
> 
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:54:03PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > On 06/09/2010 05:29 PM, AP Xen wrote:
> > > The host cpu type is "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5520  @ 2.27GHz"
> (x86_64).
> > >
> > > What should I specify in "cpuid=" in the config file? I tried the
> following:
> > >
> > > cpuid = [ '0xb:ebx=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx0000000000000000' ]
> > >
> > > Is that correct?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, or you could set 0:eax to some low number to just completely
> > disable the whole leaf.
> >
> >
> > > However, it did not have any effect. I do not see any mention of it
> in
> > > xend.log. Maybe the version of Xen packaged with CentOS 5.4 not
> support the
> > > cpuid config option.
> > >
> >
> > If not, I'd file a bug against RHEL Xen.
> >
> 
> I already did that some time ago :)
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525873
> 
> You could re-open the bug of course..
> 
> -- Pasi