From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <0755f679170b84121b21a98bbda61c90@coraid.com> From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:43:19 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] xen3 and pae problems In-Reply-To: <324fccf0704170654t226f1a8bne9a2e4b107c7f2b9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4b2db470-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i've looked at it. what do you mean by PAE support? what would plan 9 need to do to play nicely with xen3? pae is already recognized by plan 9, but the default memory types are not fiddled and you can't map a region with a specific pae type. these changes are not too hard, but i haven't gotten to a place yet where i need to implement anything but it may be that setting up wc pci space will be necessiary for good performance with some pcie drivers. - erik On Tue Apr 17 09:54:10 EDT 2007, osborne6@gmail.com wrote: > the xen packages only include the hypervisor 'kernel', not the > associated linux kernel that xen ends up starting for Dom0... > > Out of curiosity, has anyone started work on PAE support for plan9? > > On 4/17/07, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote: > > > I've tried using the non-pae package and setting grub to load the > > > non-pae hypervisor. The hypervisor then complains that the Dom0 linux > > > kernel has pae enabled. > > > > Doesn't the non-pae xen package include a dom0 kernel? If not, it > > looks like you will indeed have to build one.