Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:58:45 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD PV i386 panics Message-ID: <4E2F0E65.70603@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1311705329.3927.8.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> References: <1311705329.3927.8.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com>
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On 07/26/11 11:35, Sean Bruno wrote: > I assume then, that the i386 PV instance cannot do more than 1 CPU at > this time? Correct. SMP support was clearly started but never completed. > I note that if I scale the i386 PV Xen kernel past 855MB, I get an insta > panic at boot. I assume that there's a hard limit on the amount of RAMS > we can use here? There's a problem somewhere in FreeBSD's PV machine init code, but I haven't had an opportunity to track it down yet. I hope to look at this some time soon (if I can access the xen box in the cluster?) but I've been swamped lately. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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