Hi!
as I've reported earlier -- part of my testing of Xen 4.13 RC2 failed
in a massive way with Dom0 never coming up. I've traced that problem
to the option that we're using to boot Xen:
efi=no-rs
We've been using this option for quite sometime and Xen 4.13 RC2
is the first one that seems to m
I don't know if there's a change in efi=no-rs behavior, but some EFI fixes were
merged on 10/25, which (on some machines) have reduced the need to disable UEFI
runtime services to work around non-spec UEFI firmware. This should increase
hardware compatibility with Xen. Of course, there could s
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 09:24:38PM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> Hi!
>
> as I've reported earlier -- part of my testing of Xen 4.13 RC2 failed
> in a massive way with Dom0 never coming up. I've traced that problem
> to the option that we're using to boot Xen:
> efi=no-rs
> We've been using
Rich, Marek, thanks a million for quick replies -- I'll try your
suggestions tomorrow in my lab.
Thanks,
Roman.
On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 3:07 PM Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <
marma...@invisiblethingslab.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 09:24:38PM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 05:06:11PM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> Rich, Marek, thanks a million for quick replies -- I'll try your
> suggestions tomorrow in my lab.
To make use of the change, enable "EFI: call SetVirtualAddressMap()" in
menuconfig (Common Features), visible only with XEN_CONFIG_
Ok, to sum up -- there's definitely a pretty major regression on all
this hardware with Xen 4.13 RC2:
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/gateways-embedded-computing/sc/gateways-embedded-pcs/edge-gateway?~ck=bt
Without efi=no-rs option Xen panics on boot (sorry for attaching the
screenshot
On Nov 19, 2019, at 02:13, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
>
> Ok, to sum up -- there's definitely a pretty major regression on all
> this hardware with Xen 4.13 RC2:
>
> https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/gateways-embedded-computing/sc/gateways-embedded-pcs/edge-gateway?~ck=bt
>
> Without efi=no
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 11:31 PM Rich Persaud wrote:
>
> On Nov 19, 2019, at 02:13, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> >
> > Ok, to sum up -- there's definitely a pretty major regression on all
> > this hardware with Xen 4.13 RC2:
> >
> > https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/gateways-embedded-computin
On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 11:15:43PM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 5:27 PM Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 05:06:11PM -0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
> > > Rich, Marek, thanks a million for quick replies -- I'll try your
> > > suggestions
