From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Gora Subject: Re: Re: Panic on boot on Sun Blade 6270 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:48:45 -0300 Message-ID: <4779de451003160448m6fe61237l1de1deb550520244@mail.gmail.com> References: <4779de451003112001k4edfce39ra28a668230c7a0a6@mail.gmail.com> <4779de451003120537h1be078f5h151bbb4845083a37@mail.gmail.com> <4779de451003120543i4fe0d920s8c8da2037cadeedf@mail.gmail.com> <20100312164430.GJ1878@reaktio.net> <4779de451003120937i15b1c55ajdaaf2a45b3b1dbf8@mail.gmail.com> <4B9E0A130200007800034D06@vpn.id2.novell.com> <4779de451003151939t7d779c7dne603621552961697@mail.gmail.com> <4B9F68B2020000780003519B@vpn.id2.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4B9F68B2020000780003519B@vpn.id2.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jan Beulich Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > So are you saying even plain SLE11 doesn't work on that box? No, I'm not saying that.. SLES 11 + Xen 3.3.1 "works" (yes I have a problem with it, but I'm still trying to figure it out). In trying to figure out my other problem I wanted to upgrade Xen to something later but was not having any luck building and installing Xen from the hg repo. So I went to download.suse.com and downloaded the Xen 3.4.1 SRPMS, used rpmbuild to build the RPMS, installed those and that panics on boot. I could not install the 4.0.0 RPMs because there were conflicts with the required prerequisites and what I already installed, so I gave up. > If so, why didn't you report this to our support folks yet? I haven't reported the 3.4.1 crash just because: 1) I just found it a couple of days ago. 2) I don't have a support contract. 3) I'm really busy trying to solve the issue with my board. > > As said above - it's supposed to work (both with the 3.3.1 that SLE11 > ships with [or really, with the most recent maintenance updates in > place for both kernel and Xen] and upstream versions down to 3.2.0). > The only limitation I know about for certain (Sun?) systems is that > not all interrupts may be usable by their devices/drivers. That > limitation goes away only with 4.0 (i.e. earlier upstream versions > won't - afaict - get you anywhere either if this is the case). So we should be able use 4.0 on SLES 11 somehow? How can I install a newer Xen on this system. The only way that I can get anything to work that I compile from source is using the Xen 3.3.1 SRPM and using rpmbuild to build the RPMs from that. With that I can also modify the 3.3.1 Xen a bit to add printfs and the like to actually debug the problem with my board (although that process is a total pain). Is it possible to build something from the hg Xen repo and install it on the SLES 11 system and have it work? There seem to be a lot of suse specific patches in the SRPMs, but I haven't gone through them to see what they are all about... thanks dan