From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David F Barrera Subject: Re: Daily Xen Builds Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:28:35 -0500 Message-ID: <4304FD83.8090705@us.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Pratt Cc: Li Ge , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ian Pratt wrote: > > > >>David, >>The latest good changeset for x86_32 (PAE) should be 6124 >>according to the build report of August 12. >> >> > >On machines with <4GB (and no memory mapped above 4GB) PAE is believed >stable (after some checkins today). > > I have verified on one machine, SLES 9 SP2 based, that previously crashed on boot, and it has booted just fine. Creating a domU crashes dom0, however, unless dom0 is booted with swiotlb=force as a kernel parameter. This machine has 1GB of memory, SCSI (Adaptec), and Intel Gigabit Ethernet card 82547GI. >The funs starts when >4GB is used. We're still not quite there yet, but >getting close. > >It would be goos if the daily reports said how much memory each machine >has, and what hardware e.g. 4GB DMA capable or not [SATA/IDE controllers >are probably the biggest offenders here.] > >Thanks, >Ian > > >