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Re: [Xen-users] xen 2.0.7 on VIA C3 (EPIA)

To: glen martin <glenm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] xen 2.0.7 on VIA C3 (EPIA)
From: Rafael Ferreira <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:44:43 -0700
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Chris Brookes <cbrookes@xxxxxxxxx>
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I'm on the same boat with a VIA Samuel C3. I can't get 2x  patched and
the 3.0 series won't boot. 

I don't think the C3's are high in the priority list but It would be
awesome if one of the developers gave them some love one of these days. 

- raf

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 14:58 -0700, glen martin wrote:
> On Sept 3 13:05:37, Chris Brookes <cbrookes@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:cbrookes%40gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone tried to get Xen 2.0.7 booting on a VIA EPIA board with a
> > VIA C3 CPU?
> 
> yes, but not successfully. :)
> 
> > I know some of the EPIA mainboards have a CPU with
> > "features" (4kb pages and no cmov instruction) that require the patch
> > Adam Sulmicki put together for 2.0.0 and 2.0.1
> > (http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2004-12/txt8D0L7RWimG.txt),
> 
> Mine is a VIA EPIA PD6000, regarding which /proc/cpuinfo says:
>   machine:/proc# more /proc/cpuinfo
>   processor       : 0
>   vendor_id       : CentaurHauls
>   cpu family      : 6
>   model           : 7
>   model name      : VIA Samuel 2
>   stepping        : 3
>   cpu MHz         : 601.505
>   cache size      : 64 KB
>   fdiv_bug        : no
>   hlt_bug         : no
>   f00f_bug        : no 
>   coma_bug        : no
>   fpu             : yes
>   fpu_exception   : yes
>   cpuid level     : 1
>   wp              : yes
>   flags           : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
>   bogomips        : 1187.84
> 
> > and I have managed to patch, compile and boot a NetBSD dom0
> > sucessfully with this version.
> 
> I found this patch didn't go in cleanly (any more?) into testing (there were a
> couple of changes to semi-magic constants in the codebase), and so I had to 
> hand-insert a couple of chunks ... I won't post patches just yet in case my 
> asm skills are as rusty as others' in the thread purport to be. :)
> 
> ...
> > (which is a great step forward from the immediate reboot
> > without it), 
> 
> quite :)
> 
> > however the whole thing halts with "(XEN) Unknown
> > interrupt" just after "XEN) System RAM: 509MB (521852kB)".
> 
> I've gotten to this failure now (well, I have less RAM). 
> 
> So it's been a month since Chris posted orginally ... has anyone
> made any progress beyond this point, or is this breaking new ground?
> 
> Cheers,
> 


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