Xen users - Dec 2005 - RE: "netdev watchdog" error and non-working sis900network card - solution

> > The troubles went away when adding kernel options "noapic 
> acpi=off" to 
> > the modules grub line.
> 
> Both noapic and acpi=off make big difference to the machine 
> setup - it would probably be a good idea to figure out which 
> one makes the difference. If it''s acpi=off, a new BIOS that 
> has more suitable things in the ACPI tables is probably the solution. 
> 
> If it''s the noapic that actually solves the problem, then 
> that would be useful to know (but I''m not sure what the fix 
> is, aside from the fact that it may actually be the PCI 
> enumeration that goes wrong in the system - lspci -vvv may 
> give some info. 
Yep, there''s been a couple of people recently saying that problems have
been fixed with acpi=off and noapic, and this really rather concerns me.

I''d be very interested to see a diff of the output a native boot vs a
failing xen xen one. 

We need to get this fixed as I certainly wouldn''t want to run a system
with ''noapic''. The legacy pic support in xen is really only in
their so
that people can run on emulators like vmware or qemu.

Ian

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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Ian Pratt wrote:
> We need to get this fixed as I certainly wouldn''t want to run a
system
> with ''noapic''. The legacy pic support in xen is really
only in their so
> that people can run on emulators like vmware or qemu.
Like I just mentioned in a different thread, I need to use the
''noapic''
options on both the PowerEdge models I''ve tried.. I''ll try to
build up a
Xen vs. non-Xen kernel tomorrow or Tuesday and grab a diff for you.

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