From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4B4B7062.9070203@domain.hid> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:39:30 +0100 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1aa9845a1001110940o6bab200apde40348cc8e21bca@domain.hid> <4B4B6DDA.6090205@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <4B4B6DDA.6090205@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai not booting on a dell server List-Id: Help regarding installation and common use of Xenomai List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Saravanan S Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > Saravanan S wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to install xenomai on a Dell Poweredge server (R710).The >> platform details are given below: >> >> Two quad Intel(8 cores) Xeon E5506@domain.hid 6,RAM-16 >> GB,uses SAS disks through a SAS Host Bus Adapter(HBA). >> >> Drivers for this HBA only available from fedora 10 onwards. >> >> So I patched xenomai 2.4.10 with linux 2.6.29.4 with fedora 11 as >> the host OS.I used fedora 11 config file.I made the following changes >> to the config file >> >> 1.In processor types and features: architecture->Core2/Newer Xeon, >> subarchitecture->Generic, thermal throttling disabled,HPET support >> enabled >> >> 2.Power management stopped. > > Bad. You should enable ACPI, only CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR should be disabled. > >> 3.Support for PCI hotplug disabled. >> >> 4.MSI,MSI-X disabled. > > No reason to do this. If you enable these options and get problems, > please isolate the option which causes a problem and report. > >> 5.In real time subsystem all options selected. > > Please keep the default settings for a first run, verify that it works, > then enable the options you want (all of them if you want), if it does > not work, then isolate the option which is the cause of the problem. > >> 6.SMP support enabled >> >> 7.MTD support disabled >> >> 8.All other default options. >> >> After making and installing the modules ,when i selected the xenomai >> kernel on rebooting it didnt boot at all.There was just a blinking >> cursor on the screen. > > Did you rebuild your OS (which is it anyway ?) initramfs/initrd? If you > do the same procedure without activating CONFIG_IPIPE and > CONFIG_XENOMAI, do you get ... the same behaviour? > (snip) > - when building a linux 2.6 kernel, you do not need to run make clean > before building the kernel, actually, it is a waste of time > - the list of options to disable to run with xenomai is extravagant too: > you should not disable power management, you should enable ACPI, and the > MSI and MSI-X should work > CardBus should work > I suspect Toshiba and Dell laptop support should work > PCI hotplug should work > MTD should work (and actually works on embedded platforms with MTD devices) > Fusion MPT should work > I2O should work > ISDN should work Systematically disabling the SMIs is not a good idea either, what to do is documented in the TROUBLESHOOTING guide in Xenomai sources distribution. -- Gilles Chanteperdrix, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com