Re: FreeBSD Xen PV i386 --> 855MB Max?

2011-07-26 Thread K. Macy
I thought I did too, but Neville Chamberlain appears to be alive and well amongst those that developers have chosen to represent them. On Tuesday, July 26, 2011, Sean Bruno wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 12:01 -0700, K. Macy wrote: >> It's an artifact of the initialization code and how the xen do

Re: FreeBSD Xen PV i386 --> 855MB Max?

2011-07-26 Thread K. Macy
It's an artifact of the initialization code and how the xen domain builder configures the initial mapped memory. I've come against this and fixed this issue in the past but I guess either the domain builder has changed or the initial code has bit rotted. I can't commit so ask Colin if he can fix.

Re: FreeBSD Xen PV i386 --> 855MB Max?

2011-07-26 Thread Sean Bruno
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 12:01 -0700, K. Macy wrote: > It's an artifact of the initialization code and how the xen domain > builder configures the initial mapped memory. I've come against this > and fixed this issue in the past but I guess either the domain builder > has changed or the initial code ha

FreeBSD Xen PV i386 --> 855MB Max?

2011-07-26 Thread Sean Bruno
I note that if I scale the i386 PV Xen kernel past 855MB, I get an insta panic at boot. I assume that there's a hard limit on the amount of RAMS we can use here? Using config file "./ref8-xen32". Started domain ref8-xen32 (id=133) WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing! GDB: no debug ports presen