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* Re: Real-mode bug with AMD, gPXE, and 32-bit rep movs
       [not found] ` <200903310456.39523.mcb30@etherboot.org>
@ 2009-03-31  7:21   ` Keir Fraser
  2009-03-31  9:41   ` Fw: " George Dunlap
  2009-03-31 13:06   ` Keir Fraser
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Keir Fraser @ 2009-03-31  7:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael Brown, George Dunlap
  Cc: Christoph Egger, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	etherboot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, Tim Deegan,
	Huang2, Wei, Sebastian Herbszt

On 31/03/2009 04:56, "Michael Brown" <mcb30@etherboot.org> wrote:

> It's a bug in the BIOS; it should either not advertise PMM, or it should
> follow the PMM spec and call the initialisation entry point in flat real
> mode.

Thanks Michael. I'll get this fixed.

 -- Keir

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* Re: Fw: Real-mode bug with AMD, gPXE, and 32-bit rep movs
       [not found] ` <200903310456.39523.mcb30@etherboot.org>
  2009-03-31  7:21   ` Real-mode bug with AMD, gPXE, and 32-bit rep movs Keir Fraser
@ 2009-03-31  9:41   ` George Dunlap
  2009-03-31 13:06   ` Keir Fraser
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: George Dunlap @ 2009-03-31  9:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael Brown
  Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	etherboot-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, Sebastian Herbszt

Michael Brown wrote:
> It's not a bug in gPXE.
Sorry, I'll be more careful in using the word "bug" in the future.  At 
any rate, I'm glad we've got it sorted out.  Thanks for your help!

 -George

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread

* Re: Real-mode bug with AMD, gPXE, and 32-bit rep movs
       [not found] ` <200903310456.39523.mcb30@etherboot.org>
  2009-03-31  7:21   ` Real-mode bug with AMD, gPXE, and 32-bit rep movs Keir Fraser
  2009-03-31  9:41   ` Fw: " George Dunlap
@ 2009-03-31 13:06   ` Keir Fraser
  2009-03-31 13:21     ` George Dunlap
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Keir Fraser @ 2009-03-31 13:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael Brown, George Dunlap
  Cc: Tim Deegan, Christoph Egger, Huang2, Wei,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Sebastian Herbszt

On 31/03/2009 04:56, "Michael Brown" <mcb30@etherboot.org> wrote:

> It's a bug in the BIOS; it should either not advertise PMM, or it should
> follow the PMM spec and call the initialisation entry point in flat real
> mode.

George, can you please test with xen-unstable:19477. This should give all
our real-mode segments 4GB limits, and thus fix our PMM support.

 -- Keir

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread

* Re: Re: Real-mode bug with AMD, gPXE, and 32-bit rep movs
  2009-03-31 13:06   ` Keir Fraser
@ 2009-03-31 13:21     ` George Dunlap
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: George Dunlap @ 2009-03-31 13:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Keir Fraser
  Cc: Christoph Egger, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Tim Deegan,
	Huang2, Wei, Michael Brown, Sebastian Herbszt

That seems to have done it.  Now I can go back to what I was going to
do in the first place, which is test my new scheduler on an 8-core
system... :-)

 -George

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> On 31/03/2009 04:56, "Michael Brown" <mcb30@etherboot.org> wrote:
>
>> It's a bug in the BIOS; it should either not advertise PMM, or it should
>> follow the PMM spec and call the initialisation entry point in flat real
>> mode.
>
> George, can you please test with xen-unstable:19477. This should give all
> our real-mode segments 4GB limits, and thus fix our PMM support.
>
>  -- Keir
>
>
>
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