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From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@inetl.com>
Subject: Re: Latest xen-unstable on IBM x440
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 18:28:38 -0700
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To: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
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Nakajima, Jun wrote:

>>The point was that without specifying acpi=force, XenLinux will not
>>boot.  XenLinux can not find a root filesystem.  Scsi devices are not
>>properly detected.   It is my hope that this can be used as a
>>datapoint to aid in determining the work which still needs to be done
>>so that one day XenLinux will run on machines as easily and as well
>>as Linux does.
> 
> 
> Arun's patch allows one to set "acpi=force" for dom0 xenlinux, fulling
> enabbling ACPI in dom0 up to the level where the native Linux supports.
> What's missing there is to fall back to MPS, which is required for
> "acpi=ht".

Parsing the MPS table is working now on my machine, but interrupts are 
still not getting routed. I'm probably a couple of bug fixes away from 
getting acpi=off/ht to work.

	-Arun