Bug#504095: installation-report: xen paravirt installation

[Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:31 +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:26:08PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> [..snip..] 
> > > d-i should have installed the 686-bigmem image when running under Xen
> > > due to the use of the 686-bigmem kernel for the Xen variant of the
> > > installer. I'll investigate why this didn't happen.
> > 
> > It seems to be down to:
> > > > /proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id        : CentaurHauls
> > 
> > which due to the changeset below which will cause the installer to
> > choose the -486 kernel.
> > 
> > Strangely the 686 kernel seems to work for you in dom0 and domU but I
> > guess you were just lucky somehow? Or is the changeset below too
> > general?
> This is not a Nehemiah but an Esther CPU which seems to support nopl (I
> checked with a small program). Futhermore it seems the whole nopl issue
> got fixed in the kernel:
>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/5/374
> (b74b06c5f6612a72298f37baa65460a59c26ca67)
> but unfortunately not for 2.6.26:
>  $ git-name-rev b74b06c5f6612a72298f37baa65460a59c26ca67
>  b74b06c5f6612a72298f37baa65460a59c26ca67 tags/v2.6.27-rc6~4^2~10
> (and it doesn't seem to be in any of the 2.6.26.X series).
> 
> So to me it seems the workaround can be removed:
>  * removed for VIA Ester altogeher
>  * removed vor VIA Nehemiah once we ship 2.6.27

Do you happen to know the Family/Model for the Nehemiah?

Your cpuinfo shows that Esther is Family 6 model 9.

Perhaps Nehemiah is model 10 since that is the other model removed by
the patch?

BTW, I just tested on a non-VIA system and the correct kernel is
installed (not surprising...)

Ian.

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