On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 13:47 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 28.06.2012 14:07, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 12:10 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> SeaBIOS using a config derived from xen/tools/firmware/seabios-config > >> (which is the 1.6.x based config we use) works for me while a config > >> from "make defconfig" does not. I will investigate further. > > > > CONFIG_USE_SMM is the culprit. > > > > Xen doesn't support SMM mode for HVM guests. Seems like the best option > > at this point is to disable SMM if usingXen(). > > > > I'll also include this in the series I'm about to send out. > > So, what's the bottom line of all this discussion? Please excuse > me but I don't understand what it is all about... And it looks > like with at least stock 1.7 version of seabios it isn't a good > idea to make universal image (with xen support included), right?
Right. I sent out a series which fixed all the issues I discovered in the course of investigating this bug, including the SMM issue: http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=134087840707895 > Bastian, what do you think, is it okay to build a separate image > for xen for now? Backporting the above fixes if/when they are accepted would be another option. FWIW the .config used by xen-unstable to build SeaBIOS 1.6.x is http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/xen-unstable.hg/file/4f92bdf3370c/tools/firmware/seabios-config Ian. -- Ian Campbell The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it. -- Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org