Is it possible to install xen on a VIA C3 System? The normal Kernel dont work. Then I copied my own (working) .config in the xen/xen-3.0.1/linux-2.6.12-xen0 directory, make ARCH=xen oldconfig and make world, but even these Kernels dont work. Immidiatly after selecting the Kernel in Grub I get an reboot. mfg Matthias Taube _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Fri, Feb 24 ''06 at 22:06, Matthias Taube wrote:> Is it possible to install xen on a VIA C3 System?No. The C3 lakes the CMOV (iirc) instruction and with out a patch (that was posted long ago on this list for 2.0.6(?)) even a recompile of xen and the kernel will not help you -- Goetz Bock (c) 2006 as blacknet.de - Munich - Germany /"\ IT Consultant Creative Commons secure mobile Linux everNETting \ / X ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML email & microsoft attachments / \ _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Goetz Bock schrieb:> No. The C3 lakes the CMOV (iirc) instruction and with out a patch (that > was posted long ago on this list for 2.0.6(?)) even a recompile of xen > and the kernel will not help youBut the patch http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-05/msg00579.html wont do on xen 3.0. http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-10/msg00037.html reports that the patch is < xen 2.0.7 Its really a pitty that xen dont work on this low-power and fanless (silent!) cpu. mfg Matthias Taube _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Matthias Taube wrote:> Goetz Bock schrieb: > > >>No. The C3 lakes the CMOV (iirc) instruction and with out a patch (that >>was posted long ago on this list for 2.0.6(?)) even a recompile of xen >>and the kernel will not help you > > > But the patch > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-05/msg00579.html > wont do on xen 3.0. > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2005-10/msg00037.html > reports that the patch is < xen 2.0.7 > > Its really a pitty that xen dont work on this low-power and fanless > (silent!) cpu.Anyone know if it''s the same for M10000/13000 (bigbrother of C3)? AFAIK the missing CMOV instr. has been fixed on those cpu''s. IMBW.. Further, the VIA KN400-series chipset should be a better design than previous ones. If only they had a KN400 pro based board, since the non-pro has issues with SATA-2 disks - not that SATA-2 matters on such slowish cpu''s, but newer, larger disks will likely be SATA-2 mostly. -- Kind regards, Mogens Valentin _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
If it''s any help I''m running Xen 2.0.7 on the following... Simon xen-test:~# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.6.11.12-xen0 (root@backup) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #2 Fri Nov 11 12:50:29 GMT 2005 xen-test:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 9 model name : VIA Nehemiah stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 999.859 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : yes f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu tsc msr cx8 mtrr cmov pat mmx fxsr sse rng rng_en ace ace_en bogomips : 1992.29 _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:06:13PM +0100, Matthias Taube wrote:> Is it possible to install xen on a VIA C3 System? > > The normal Kernel dont work. > > Then I copied my own (working) .config in the > xen/xen-3.0.1/linux-2.6.12-xen0 directory, > make ARCH=xen oldconfig and make world, but > even these Kernels dont work. > > Immidiatly after selecting the Kernel in Grub I get an reboot.Pre-Nehemia C3 doesn''t work on Xen yet. I start changing what it necessary to make it boot though but this is not yet finished and I''m busy on something else ATM ... Cheers, -- Vincent Hanquez _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users