Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:09:49 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD PV i386 panics Message-ID: <1311707389.3927.11.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4E2F0E65.70603@freebsd.org> References: <1311705329.3927.8.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com> <4E2F0E65.70603@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:58 -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > 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. > Yup, you're on my list to get access today. I'll get kerberos up and running on the hypervisor so you can screw around in a bit. Sean
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