Bug#504095: installation-report: xen paravirt installation
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:38:30PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> 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?
It's the other way around. Esther is family 6/model 10 (maybe you confused this
with the stepping) and Nehemiah is family 6/model 9 [1].
> BTW, I just tested on a non-VIA system and the correct kernel is
> installed (not surprising...)
Cool.
-- Guido
>
> Ian.
[1] http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2006-05/msg06226.html
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