Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-07-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 11:04 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > 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 > >

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-07-02 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 01:47:42PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 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 (wi

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-07-02 Thread Ian Campbell
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

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-07-02 Thread Michael Tokarev
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 furth

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-28 Thread Ian Campbell
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 do

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 08:48 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:55:11AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Yes, this makes sense. I actually went one further and nuked the Kconfig > > option, since it's only real non-default use was Xen. So now I makde it > > default to 0x402 and

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-27 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:55:11AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Yes, this makes sense. I actually went one further and nuked the Kconfig > option, since it's only real non-default use was Xen. So now I makde it > default to 0x402 and set it to 0xe9 in the Xen case. [...] > --- a/src/output.c > +++

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 11:55 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 18:55 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:25:13AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 10:22 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > Subject: [PATCH] enable Xen support by default. >

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-27 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 18:55 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:25:13AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 10:22 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > Subject: [PATCH] enable Xen support by default. > > > > In this context I thought it would also be useful to mak

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-25 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:25:13AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 10:22 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > Subject: [PATCH] enable Xen support by default. > > In this context I thought it would also be useful to make > CONFIG_DEBUG_IO_PORT dynamic. However with the below I get lots

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-23 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:25:13AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > In this context I thought it would also be useful to make > CONFIG_DEBUG_IO_PORT dynamic. I think it is easier to either wire 0x402 into Xen or switch completely to it. Is there something like a standard for it? Bastian -- Madness

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-20 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 10:22 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Subject: [PATCH] enable Xen support by default. In this context I thought it would also be useful to make CONFIG_DEBUG_IO_PORT dynamic. However with the below I get lots of build errors about xen_cpuid_base not being defined. I got similar e

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-20 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 19:11 -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:44:08PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 13:36 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > > 18.06.2012 23:14, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > > Package: seabios > > > > Version: 1.7.0-1 > > > > Severity: wis

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-19 Thread Kevin O'Connor
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:44:08PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 13:36 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > 18.06.2012 23:14, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Package: seabios > > > Version: 1.7.0-1 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > > Please enable Xen support in seabios. It will be us

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 13:45 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 01:36:31PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > Do you know what's the outcome of this? As far as I remember, it is just > > a config option, but it is not enabled by default, do you know why? > > The outcome right now

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 13:36 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 18.06.2012 23:14, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Package: seabios > > Version: 1.7.0-1 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Please enable Xen support in seabios. It will be used by the next Xen > > release and maybe the version in Wheezy. > > Do you

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 01:36:31PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Do you know what's the outcome of this? As far as I remember, it is just > a config option, but it is not enabled by default, do you know why? The outcome right now is: it does not work. For some reason if fails to start the VGA b

Re: [SeaBIOS] Bug#678042: seabios - Please enable Xen support

2012-06-19 Thread Michael Tokarev
18.06.2012 23:14, Bastian Blank wrote: Package: seabios Version: 1.7.0-1 Severity: wishlist Please enable Xen support in seabios. It will be used by the next Xen release and maybe the version in Wheezy. Do you know what's the outcome of this? As far as I remember, it is just a config option,