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Re: RE: RE: [Xen-devel] AGP problems with 2.0.5

To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RE: RE: [Xen-devel] AGP problems with 2.0.5
From: Kurt Garloff <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:38:41 +0100
Cc: Marcel Meyer <meyerm@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ian.pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Hi Ian,

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 06:31:08PM -0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> Kurt wrote:
> > If I disable radeon, everything is fine.
> 
> I guess we'll just have to do a code review of radeon and look to see
> whether there are any duff assumptions...

I did not find any phys_to_virt() or such.
What else do I need to look for.

> > I could try noreboot to see whether this is the case, I guess?
> 
> That should stop the reboot, though as you're not in a text mode it
> probably won't help :-(

No, but at least the machine does not triple fault or writes the
wrong values to the kbd controller. (Yeah, the latter is not likely.)

> > mv radeon.ko radeon.ko_
> > is what I used.
> 
> That's the sort of hack that I'd come up with ;-)

And I think it's better than changing the X config.
I use the same FS for booting the machine natively and in Xen mode.

Regards,
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Kurt Garloff                   <kurt@xxxxxxxxxx>             [Koeln, DE]
Physics:Plasma modeling <garloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [TU Eindhoven, NL]
Linux: SUSE Labs (Director)    <garloff@xxxxxxx>            [Novell Inc]

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