Re: [qubes-devel] Re: pre Sandy bridge IOMMU support (gm45)

["Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 06:21:05PM +0000, Thierry Laurion wrote:
> Hi devs!
> 
> XEN devs:
> As per short discussion with ktemkin earlier in January in #xen:
> 
> "ktemkin Jan 10, 2016 16:21:50
> This test patch did appear to make the system work, though:
> https://gist.github.com/ktemkin/0e81b93654ae800a5609
> 
> ktemkin Jan 10, 2016 16:24:55
> Only real difference I see between that and the upstream behavior (besides
> limiting things to dom0 so things weren't accidentally passed through) is
> the call to disable_pmr on line 117 before aborting."
> 
> 
> 
> Makes total sense to my early understanding, since it seems that it is said
> that vt-d engine gets disabled, but disable_pmr(iommu) function is not
> called to enforce.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> QUBES devs:
> I'm still trying to understand how to apply this patch to qubes_builder to
> actually build a test iso or xen.gz image and report. All Qubes patches
> seem to be applied from git to local directory structure. Looking inside
> the code to understand how to generate the provided patch to git can apply
> it to local chrooted environment when building. Any documentation you could
> point me to would be greatly appreciated, as any feedback to actually fix
> the issue stopping this laptop from being a nearly perfect candidate for
> Qubes.

Actually for testing patched hypervisor, you can build xen the standard
way (http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen_From_Source). And
then copy just xen.gz. Qubes-specific patches are only for the
toolstack, not the hypervisor.

But if you want to build full xen package, simply place patches
somewhere in qubes-builder/qubes-src/vmm-xen (patches.misc subdir?) and
add them to series.conf. Then execute "make vmm-xen" from qubes-builder
directory.

> 
> Thierry
> 
> Le sam. 23 janv. 2016 à 02:37, Thierry Laurion <thierry.laurion@gmail.com>
> a écrit :
> 
> > Hey devs,
> >
> > Thinkpad x200 p8600 laptops have vt-d, vt-x and tpm. They also have intel
> > integrated graphics 4 Series (gm45 chipset), supported through i915 driver.
> >
> > In December, a fix got introduced to Xen 4.6 through iommu=no-igfx switch.
> > Before that fix, it was impossible to boot xen without passing iommu=0.
> >
> > With iommu=no-igfx passed on, Qubes boots xen, kernel, dom0 and domu until
> > some graphic rendering is done from a domu to dom0 xserver.
> >
> > I'm trying to push forward IOMMU support of gm45 chipset here. The problem
> > is between i915 and xen iommu support for sure, but there is no crash or
> > interesting debugging information given on a serial console.
> >
> > Any dev help is welcome since that beast and t400 would be excellent Qubes
> > candidates once that problem is fixed. I posted in December on the list
> > just before Christmas but I guess the timing wasn't right;)
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> > Thierry
> >
> 



- -- 
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2

iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWpWIjAAoJENuP0xzK19csmBcH/jAkYioso8K0POq+hIPop9Ft
E9h0b964j/jaZsgqofmnZFj8ZA4zI/qr4mQEIuNdk+dUgN69awn/Ffa+/bxTtv0B
7AnCv65s+xMAOn8YHIc/pcwmL1/FymK1NAoVdk4wWXdWhxOW1PdGp+OCvFGFpOd1
L0rWwuY+EAV1UnUmd4OyPBLVh4f5fFG7B4tXnd1LaZ18noeSOaJpj5/o55zuwpgC
Fx3CtxtAlMLOpu7W1S/MzC73aOajKpFwoaS4RAMD8/Wby3nvtgcBJ6jmBmmSdn/J
9YUOxO9cflIKjKbqXmYZJFceK1CmGNYhYEjTI8m1K9e+ian3vWa3GOwEfBk1oIo=
=F+Eh
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel