Hi Jan,
Which version of tboot are you using? Chris On 08/03/2016 11:28 AM, Jan Schermer wrote: > Just FYI - I'm using tboot with 4.4 kernels (Ubuntu 16.04) and I haven't had > this issue > > Jan > >> On 03 Aug 2016, at 05:35, Sun, Ning <ning....@intel.com> wrote: >> >> There is an explanation in README of tboot source code about 'min_ram' >> parameter: https://sourceforge.net/p/tboot/code/ci/default/tree/. >> To identify this issue as a generic or a specific one with Qubes OS, needs >> to run Qubes OS and tboot on several different platforms from different >> vendors if possible. >> There are new releases of tboot available since tboot 1.8.2, to help verify >> if tboot has a bug relevant to this crash/reset. >> >> -ning >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chris Laprise [mailto:tas...@openmailbox.org] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2016 5:54 PM >> To: tboot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [tboot-devel] Crash/system reset with linux 4.4 >> >> Hello, >> >> >> On Qubes OS 3.2rc2, a tboot-based boot sequence will fail with a system >> reset unless the 'min_ram=0x2000000' parameter is specified in grub. See >> Qubes issue #2155: >> >> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2155 >> >> Currently, Qubes uses tboot version 1.8.2 from the Fedora 23 repository. >> The other relevant components are Linux kernel 4.4.14 and Xen 4.6.1. If >> Linux is downgraded to 4.2 then the system is able to boot without crashing. >> >> This parameter would normally be used to rectify a milder condition where >> the system boots with less memory available than it should. Using it to >> avoid a catastrophic crash does not seem right, so I'd like to ask what is >> the best course of action from the tboot devs: Is this a bug in tboot or >> Linux? Should Qubes devs consider using 'min_ram' for all tboot >> installations? Would it be worth the trouble to try upgrading tboot to the >> current version? And if so, are signatures available for the tboot code? >> >> Chris >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> tboot-devel mailing list >> tboot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tboot-devel >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> tboot-devel mailing list >> tboot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tboot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ tboot-devel mailing list tboot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tboot-devel
