Pkg xen devel - Sep 2014 - Bug#760563: xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64: Xen >=4.1 not booting on IBM HS20

Package: xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64
Version: 4.4.0-4
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64 depends on no packages.

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64 recommends:
ii  xen-utils-4.4  4.4.0-4

xen-hypervisor-4.4-amd64 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

>From xen >=4.1 it doesn't work with an IBM bladecenter using HS20, it
was working without any problems with Debian 6 and xen 4.0. But with Debian 7
and xen 4.1 is not working and if we trey debian 7 and xen 4.0 works.
Also tried with citrix 6.2 and during install server was rebooted

Error verified with Debian 7 and xen 4.1, Debian 8 and xen.4.4.   

Attached additional information about errors reportes by IBM AMM (files
attached)

Additional information:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-09/msg00584.html

On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 13:39 +0200, trenta wrote:
> Additional information:
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-09/msg00584.html
This thread suggests that mmconfig might be the issue, in which case
does adding "mmcfg=0" to your hypervisor command line help?

I'd recommend continuing to pursue this upstream, there are far more
experts on the low level aspect of things there.

Ian.

Hi,

First of all, thanks for your help.
I have made some test with this results
debian testing with xen 4.4 can run if we add mmcfg=0 as boot options
to kernel boot parameters !!! Remember that with xen kernel <=4.0
works perfect without to add mmcfg=0

I have tried to install citrix xenserver 5.6 and works perfect
(remember that this is xen 3 branch)
Also we have tried to install xenserver 6.2 but during boot install using:
menu.c32 and add boot parameter mmcfg=0
and after to install  boot we have added mmcfg=0 in extlinux and
executed extlinux -i /boot to update bootloader


With this seems to work, and it could be a possible workaround?

My questions are:
- mmcfg: I'm not sure where is used and what happen if we use xen
without mmcfg. Why with xen <=4.0 is not needed anb for xen >4.0 is a
requirements for this hardware. Will be solved?
- Can I use for production environment this configuration?


Thanks


2014-09-05 15:56 GMT+02:00 Ian Campbell <ijc at
hellion.org.uk>:
> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 13:39 +0200, trenta wrote:
>> Additional information:
>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-09/msg00584.html
>
> This thread suggests that mmconfig might be the issue, in which case
> does adding "mmcfg=0" to your hypervisor command line help?
>
> I'd recommend continuing to pursue this upstream, there are far more
> experts on the low level aspect of things there.
>
> Ian.
>

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