Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2015-08-26 Thread James Bromberger
On 24/09/2014 6:43 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 11:23 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >> On ARM (and on PV on HVM x86) we want vfb to work by default if the >> xenstore keys are there. But I don't think that it means we need to >> wait 30 secs for it at boot. What is a reasona

Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2014-09-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 11:23 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On ARM (and on PV on HVM x86) we want vfb to work by default if the > xenstore keys are there. But I don't think that it means we need to > wait 30 secs for it at boot. What is a reasonable amount of time to > wait for on a slow and

Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2014-09-24 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:57:26PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 16:43 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > > > On 23/09/14 15:30, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > create ! > > > > title it "30s delay loading xenfb driver on some systems

Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2014-09-24 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, David Vrabel wrote: > On 24/09/14 11:23, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:57:26PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >>> On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 16:43 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > On 23/09/14 15:30, Ian

Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2014-09-24 Thread David Vrabel
On 24/09/14 11:23, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:57:26PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >>> On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 16:43 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: On 23/09/14 15:30, Ian Campbell wrote: > create ! > title it "30s

Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2014-09-23 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 04:57:26PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 16:43 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > > On 23/09/14 15:30, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > create ! > > > title it "30s delay loading xenfb driver on some systems" > > > owner it Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > > > thanks > > >

Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2014-09-23 Thread David Vrabel
On 23/09/14 15:30, Ian Campbell wrote: > create ! > title it "30s delay loading xenfb driver on some systems" > owner it Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > thanks > > Hi James, > > Some of the other Xen devs were discussing an issue which sounded > awfully similar to this one, so I am copying the xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2014-09-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 16:43 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > On 23/09/14 15:30, Ian Campbell wrote: > > create ! > > title it "30s delay loading xenfb driver on some systems" > > owner it Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > > thanks > > > > Hi James, > > > > Some of the other Xen devs were discussing an issue w

Re: Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2014-09-23 Thread Ian Campbell
create ! title it "30s delay loading xenfb driver on some systems" owner it Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk thanks Hi James, Some of the other Xen devs were discussing an issue which sounded awfully similar to this one, so I am copying the xen-devel list and creating a Xen bug to track the issue, please C

Re: Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2014-09-23 Thread James Bromberger
(Sorry for the delay, was offlist and didnt see your response Ian, so have now subscribed for this discussion) > Isn't the delay actually because the host has exposed a device/vfb/0 to > the guest apparently without providing the corresponding backend device? Sorry, I'm not aware. All I see is

Re: Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2014-09-17 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 14:01 +0800, James Bromberger wrote: > Hello all > > > > I'm starting to generate some Jessie images for AWS EC2 (Xen HVM), and > notice that the current 3.14+59 has the xen-fb-frontend compiled in as > a driver and not as a loadable module. This driver is causing a hang >

Debian Kernel: Xen-fb-frontend as a module?

2014-09-16 Thread James Bromberger
Hello all I'm starting to generate some Jessie images for AWS EC2 (Xen HVM), and notice that the current 3.14+59 has the xen-fb-frontend compiled in as a driver and not as a loadable module. This driver is causing a hang during boot time, delaying boot for 25 seconds: [ 6.064100] xenbus_prob