Hello,
I have attached a patch wich adds support for 4kb pages
to xen 2.0 proper.
(No changes were required from xen 2.0-beta. Apprently mixing
xenolinux from one release and xen kernel from another release is
a no-no. Other than that there were no problems. Thanks to Rupert
Schlick for helping to nail it down. The "noacpi" parameter
does not seem to be mandatory. Finally removed a bit uneeded
code from patch).
I have also attached sample output of booting xen and linux-dom0
on VIA Samuel 2 stepping 03.
All in all, patch has been booted with xen 2.0 on:
* my via based system
* my pentium 3
* Rupert Schlick''s via system
In order to repeat this you need:
1) get 2.0 release. You could do something like this
bk clone bk://xen.bkbits.net/xen-2.0.bk
2) apply attached patch, ex
patch -p1 < ../xen-20r.4kb-diff
How is the VIA Samuel 2 stepping 03 different from normal cpu?
1) lack of 4mb page support
2) lack of support for Conditional Move (CMOV) instruction
3) lack of ACPI support
Adam
