[Xen-ia64-devel] [GFW bug]crash when Input the description

2008-05-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Kazuhiro: I notice you sent a patch(cset 125) to fix this issue and Tristan added a new build at cset 133. But with the new build, I still meet the issue when a boot option added for linux guest. GFW output a log as below: Exception=5a00 Iip=1ec37780

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Xen/IPF Unstable CS#17677 Status Report

2008-05-22 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi jingke: Pls copy a newest RPM of XEN/IA64 and GFW you used to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/, I can't open website of QA's building system. Though Isaku work around it, I will root fix it. Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation -Original Message- From:

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Q] About xc.domain_destroy_hook

2008-01-30 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Kan: When I implemented NVRAM, I found there were many difference shutdown ways for HVM domain. So I added hook on each flow. Maybe Xend code merged some shutdown paths. You can try to remove it to see if NVRAM still works. If fine, I think it is removable. Thx. Good good

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [Xen-ia64][GFW PATCH]VGA high color fix

2007-12-11 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
-Original Message- From: Tristan Gingold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007?12?12? 9:24 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64][GFW PATCH]VGA high color fix Hi, I have just commited and pushed your patch. Thanks, I will go

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [Xen-ia64][GFW PATCH]VGA high color fix

2007-12-11 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Sent: 2007?12?12? 13:32 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: Tristan Gingold; xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64][GFW PATCH]VGA high color fix On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:54:37AM +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote: Yes, it's a natural way. Why VgaBios didn't load by QEMU at IA64 side, we need

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH]E100 network card emulator

2007-11-28 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi, Xing The E100 network card emulator can't keep functioning in guest HVM with the following run environment. Xen: 1. xen unstable tree, Cset = 16470 (latest) 2. open guest firmware, Cset=35:ebf7052731ec (latest) Guest HVM Configuration:

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH]E100 network card emulator

2007-11-28 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
-Original Message- From: Jarod Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007?11?28? 23:43 To: You, Yongkang Cc: Zhang, Xing Z; Mu, Qin; xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH]E100 network card emulator You, Yongkang wrote: Em, it might be the issue of using default Linux

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [PATCH 1/5] Add guest_os_type config option

2007-11-27 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Message- From: Alex Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007?11?28? 12:20 To: xen-ia64-devel Cc: Zhang, Xing Z; Duan, Ronghui Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Add guest_os_type config option This will be sent to xen-devel if this is the way we decide to go. This leverages much of Wing's code

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [PATCH 5/5] Implement guest_os_type for ia64

2007-11-27 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
, your implantation is more flexible, both method are ok for me. Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation -Original Message- From: Alex Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007?11?28? 12:21 To: xen-ia64-devel Cc: Zhang, Xing Z; Duan, Ronghui Subject

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [xen-ia64][PATCH]New set OS type method

2007-11-22 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007?11?22? 1:27 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: xen-ia64-devel Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [xen-ia64][PATCH]New set OS type method On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 00:44 +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote: In the beginning, I used the method that let user set a string(windows/linux

[Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH] update xmexample.vti

2007-11-22 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Add e100 parameter and guest os type parameter Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation xmexample.patch Description: xmexample.patch ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com

[Xen-ia64-devel] [xen-ia64][PATCH]New set OS type method

2007-11-21 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Alex: This patch add an OS type configure entry in script. It can replace _OSI interface. User may use below format to set OS type: In a xmexample.vti: # 0xB0:unknown # 0xB1:windows # 0xB2:linux #default is unknown Guest_os_type=0xB1 Comments are welcome. Good good

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] revisit _OSI optimizations?

2007-11-20 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
config option in the domain spec file. If a user wants to tune for performance, they can add a config option, but the default must work correctly, if not 100% optimal for all guests. Are there other ideas or objections? Anyone want to volunteer to take on this task? Thanks, Just ideas. -

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] E100 emulator is ready

2007-11-18 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 17:03 +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote: Hi All: I am sorry I spent so long a time on E100 emulator, you know, windows is really hard to debug. Anyway it working now, and seems performs better than rtl8139. The attachment is the patch enable E100 in XEN. Hope you

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] E100 emulator is ready

2007-11-16 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Which doc you refer to could tell me how to understand .spd file and .msa file? I search in EDK2's website but get nothing. As far as now, I don't know how to configure these files to build a new driver. IIRC (I don't have the sources here), there is a doc directory either in edk2 or

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] E100 emulator is ready

2007-11-15 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi All: I am sorry I spent so long a time on E100 emulator, you know, windows is really hard to debug. Anyway it working now, and seems performs better than rtl8139. The attachment is the patch enable E100 in XEN. Hope you can try it on your box to see if everything is ok.

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] E100 emulator is ready

2007-11-14 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Corporation -Original Message- From: Kouya Shimura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007?11?15? 9:35 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] E100 emulator is ready Hi Wing, Great work! IA64 Windows finally can be practical widely by your effort. Thank you

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] IA64 using Redhat 5.1: xm create fails: Hotplugscripts not working.

2007-11-13 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Do you check your disk parameter is right? Error: Device 768 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working. often has relation to un-correct disk image path or you mount the image somewhere but forget unmount it. In the newest XEN/IA64 changeset, the error info is more readable, you

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] IA64 using Redhat 5.1: xm createfails:Hotplugscripts not working.

2007-11-13 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
expose this issue. Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation -Original Message- From: Zhang, Xing Z Sent: 2007?11?14? 14:14 To: 'Tristan Gingold'; You, Yongkang Cc: xen-ia64-devel Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] IA64 using Redhat 5.1: xm createfails:Hotplugscripts

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] IA64 using Redhat 5.1: xm createfails:Hotplugscripts not working.

2007-11-13 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] IA64 using Redhat 5.1: xm createfails:Hotplugscripts not working. On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:59:29PM +0800, You, Yongkang wrote: Also found following line in Kayvna's original email: == xend-debug.log == ERROR Internal error: Invalid nvram signature. Nvram save

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH][GFW] Fix SMBIOS allocation

2007-11-01 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Thanks. This API is pretty good Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Williamson Sent: 2007?11?2? 8:34 To: Tristan Gingold Cc: xen-ia64-devel Subject:

[Xen-ia64-devel] [XEN-IA64][PATCH] Fix MMIO readb operation

2007-10-22 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
We should do clean before read operation. Otherwise, read one byte data may get garbage data somethimes Signed-off-by, Zhang Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation mmio.patch Description: mmio.patch

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] eepro100 HVM NIC

2007-10-09 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Corporation -Original Message- From: Alex Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007?10?9? 6:22 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: xen-ia64-devel Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] eepro100 HVM NIC On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:36 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: The BARs get mapped by some level of firmware

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] eepro100 HVM NIC

2007-10-08 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 10:33 +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote: Hi Alex: I also work on this task. Base on the primary emulator in QEMU, I refine it to fix where I think it doesn't follow intel's eepr100 spec. Current status are: 1. it works for linux guest both in XEN/IPF and QEMU. But seems

[Xen-ia64-devel] where is serial port of dom0?

2007-09-27 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Alex: Where is serial port of dom0 in current changeset? I don't find /dev/ttyS0. If I want to open serial port, which device file I should use? Thanks. Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation ___

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] where is serial port of dom0?

2007-09-27 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Got it! Great thx:) Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation -Original Message- From: Dietmar Hahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年9月27日 14:40 To: xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: Zhang, Xing Z; Alex Williamson Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Open GFW Howto

2007-09-25 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Quoting Kouya Shimura [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Wing, Thank you for your contribution. I'd like to switch to open GFW too. But there is an obstruction. Open GFW seems not to support legacy VGA bios. So Windows can't utilize cirrus logic video card and the display of qemu console is very

[Xen-ia64-devel] Open GFW Howto

2007-09-24 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi All: As you know, open source firmware is available now. It performs stable in our internal test. To be a pure open source project, open firmware is natural for RHEL5.2. It's really exciting if community could switch to open firmware in your common test and use. Here is a doc

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: vimrc snippet

2007-09-18 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Aron: Adding script in .vimrc is convenient to us, but how to the future contributors who have no configures in their .vimrc? Could we use mode-line? For example: /* vim: set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab: */ We can add stuff liking above in every .c/.h files so that

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source inXEN/IA64 tree

2007-09-17 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
downloaded via another make target, which would then be integrated to the top-level make default target. That way a make install doesn't have further network dependencies. Another make target would be fine. Seems like it would logically fit somewhere under the tools make hierarchy.

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source in XEN/IA64 tree

2007-09-17 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007?9?13? 20:59 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: Alex Williamson; xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source in XEN/IA64 tree Quoting Zhang, Xing Z [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Alex: The open source firmware works fine now. Shall we put

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] vimrc snippet

2007-09-17 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
default to allowing tab characters set noexpandtab detect settings of file being edited and change ours to match autocmd BufReadPost *.c,*.h \ let foundtab = search('^\t\|^\( \{8}\)', 'cnpw') | \ if foundtab == 1 | setlocal noexpandtab | \ elseif foundtab == 2 | setlocal

[Xen-ia64-devel] Shall we put open source firmware source in XEN/IA64 tree

2007-09-13 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Alex: The open source firmware works fine now. Shall we put it in XEN/IA64 tree? So when people do clone, they also get firmware source. Then we can add a script in Makefile to build binary for people when they building source of XEN/IA64. This can make XEN/IA64 pure open source and

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Strange code in vmx_init.c

2007-09-09 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
I think Isaku have the answer. Is it related to MCA? Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tristan Gingold Sent: 2007年9月8日 0:26 To: Xen-ia64-devel Subject:

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Strange code in vmx_init.c

2007-09-09 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Post URL: http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/ia64/xen-unstable.hg?rev/3c8039aa5004 Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zhang, Xing Z Sent: 2007年9月10日 9:33 To: Tristan

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [XEN-IA64][Guest firmware PATCH] add hypercall in GFW to getXEN UUID

2007-09-05 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Strange! I met segfault both on native linux and dom0!(see attachment) What's version of dmidecode you used? Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation -Original Message- From: Alex Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年9月5日 4:08 To: Zhang, Xing Z

[Xen-ia64-devel] [XEN-IA64][Guest firmware PATCH] add hypercall in GFW to get XEN UUID

2007-09-03 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Tristan: This patch is also for SMBios. If we get XEN version info in setup_guest()(xc_ia64_hvm_build.c), XEN UUID is not available because it's dom0 context at that time. So I do it from hypercall in open GFW. It also clean up mix TAB and space formats. Good good

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] SMBios table support in XEN

2007-08-30 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
- From: Alex Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年8月28日 5:42 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: xen-ia64-devel Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] SMBios table support in XEN Hi, I'll point out the specific place I was thinking below, along with a couple other issues. When I test

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [XEN-DEVEL][PATCH]Use a marco to standardize XEN uuid length

2007-08-27 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
xen_domain_handle_t is ok. We add SMBios for IA64 -Original Message- From: Keir Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年8月24日 22:45 To: Zhang, Xing Z; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: [XEN-DEVEL][PATCH]Use a marco to standardize XEN uuid length Should just use

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Fix error message for xm createcommand

2007-08-27 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Kanno: I did a quick investigation and found some codes perform strange. As I know, XEND do below flow to create a domain: XendDomain(single one) - XendDomainInfo(represent a domain) Image(a set of handle) When XendDomainInfo init, it executes

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][GFW PATCH] Series of patches for open guest firmware --- OSI interface support [4/6]

2007-08-26 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Oh, I am very sorry. I forgot hg pull. But I found a typo in old patch which make OSI cannot work. I will send a new patch to fix that. So pls ignore this patch. -Original Message- From: Tristan Gingold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年8月27日 9:52 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: Tristan

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][GFW PATCH] Series of patches for open guest firmware -- NVRAM support [2/6]

2007-08-26 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
It likes a para-virtualized method. We intercept OS's operations on EmuVariable when it calls SetVariable() and LoadVariable() and save/load them to our NVRAM file. -Original Message- From: Tristan Gingold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年8月26日 12:18 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: [EMAIL

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][GFW PATCH] Series of patches for open guest firmware -- OSI interface support ( C file)[3/6]

2007-08-26 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
I tried build current upstream and found auto build script need do litte changes. See attachment. Another is for OSI patch typo fix. -Original Message- From: Tristan Gingold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年8月27日 10:09 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; xen-ia64-devel; Alex

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [BUG]Dom0 panic if dom0_mem field is notexplicitly set in elilo.conf

2007-08-26 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Message- From: Jarod Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年8月25日 4:58 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [BUG]Dom0 panic if dom0_mem field is notexplicitly set in elilo.conf Zhang, Xing Z wrote: The log showed below: I was actually interested in the entire

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] SMBios table support in XEN

2007-08-24 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Tristan: Pls use this one. the old one is not careful handle unaligned issue due to some code is ported from X86 side. The new one fixes these issues and works fine. -Original Message- From: Zhang, Xing Z Sent: 2007年8月24日 11:38 To: Zhang, Xing Z; Alex Williamson Cc: xen-ia64

[Xen-ia64-devel][GFW PATCH] Series of patches for open guest firmware

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Tristan and Alex: I did a series of patches to strong open GFW. They are showed below: [1/6] Auto patch script. This patch make things easy when we need directly patch on EDK2 source. User just need put their patch in edk2-patches and add patch name in edk2-patches\patches_list, then

[Xen-ia64-devel][GFW PATCH] Series of patches for open guest firmware --- Auto patch script[1/6]

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
auto_patch_script.patch Description: auto_patch_script.patch ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel

[Xen-ia64-devel][GFW PATCH] Series of patches for open guest firmware -- NVRAM support [2/6]

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
NVRAM_support.patch Description: NVRAM_support.patch ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel

[Xen-ia64-devel][GFW PATCH] Series of patches for open guest firmware --- OSI interface support [4/6]

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
OSI_support_ASL_file.patch Description: OSI_support_ASL_file.patch ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel

[Xen-ia64-devel][GFW PATCH] Series of patches for open guest firmware --- SMBios table support[5/6]

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
The main code is ported from smbios.c in IA32. I corrected some info in it for IPF, maybe something in it is not suitable for IPF but I didn't find issue in my test SMBios_table_support.patch Description: SMBios_table_support.patch ___ Xen-ia64-devel

[Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] SMBios table support in XEN

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Alex: This patch used to get XEN version info and pass to GFW throuhg Hob. I tested it with other pathes which for GFW, OSI interface works fine with linux kernel 2.6.22.3. smbios_for_xen.patch Description: smbios_for_xen.patch ___

RE: [PATCH] Fix libxc and pm_timer (Was: [Xen-ia64-devel] Maybedoman_destroy() was not called?)

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Masaki Kanno Sent: 2007年8月24日 0:19 To: xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: [PATCH] Fix libxc and pm_timer (Was: [Xen-ia64-devel] Maybedoman_destroy() was not called?) Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:27:45

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] SMBios table support in XEN

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zhang, Xing Z Sent: 2007年8月23日 19:01 To: Alex Williamson Cc: xen-ia64-devel Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] SMBios table support in XEN Hi Alex: This patch used to get XEN version info and pass to GFW throuhg Hob. I tested it with other

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [BUG]Dom0 panic if dom0_mem field is notexplicitly set in elilo.conf

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
and dom0_mem=4071M for 4G one. The panic meet again. -Original Message- From: Alex Williamson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年8月23日 20:15 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [BUG]Dom0 panic if dom0_mem field is notexplicitly set in elilo.conf On Thu, 2007-08

[Xen-ia64-devel] [XEN-DEVEL][PATCH]Use a marco to standardize XEN uuid length

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
This patch use a marco instead of hard code in smbios.c. IA64 also need this marco. use_marco_for_uuid_len_in_smbios.patch Description: use_marco_for_uuid_len_in_smbios.patch ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] SMBios table support in XEN

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] SMBios table support in XEN On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 19:00 +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote: Hi Alex: This patch used to get XEN version info and pass to GFW throuhg Hob. I tested it with other pathes which for GFW, OSI interface

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [BUG]Dom0 panic if dom0_mem field is notexplicitly set in elilo.conf

2007-08-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
-- nomca console=tty0 console=ttyS0,57600,8n1 root=/dev/sda3 max_loop=32 -Original Message- From: Jarod Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年8月24日 13:35 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: Alex Williamson; xen-ia64-devel; Masaki Kanno Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [BUG]Dom0 panic if dom0_mem

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: _OSI(Linux) == false

2007-08-22 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Alex, Have you tried to run HPUX, OpenVMX and NonStop on top of VTI-domain? No I haven't. Tristan has played a little bit with OVMS. My guess is that none of them will work without some VTI domain support tweaking and none of them will have support for any of the Qemu NICs. BTW,

[Xen-ia64-devel] [BUG]Dom0 panic if dom0_mem field is not explicitly set in elilo.conf

2007-08-22 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi All: I found in current changeset, if you don't explicitly set dom0_mem field in elilo.conf then a kernel panic raises. Error info showed below. I am not sure which changeset leads this bug, but CSET15410 is fine. Did anyone meet this? PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12,

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: _OSI(Linux) == false

2007-08-21 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
I think both these methods work if we don't need to support other OS. That's the major issue. There are at least half a dozen of OS for ia64 and we are not sure this method won't break another OS. ACPI method is fine. If it could't work, I'd prefer explicit flag in xm configuration file.

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Xen/IA64 Healthiness Report -Cset#15666

2007-08-01 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
With the older GFW, where was the retry of the uncompress occurring? I don't think elilo has support for this. Was it the GFW retrying elilo? What happens with the open source GFW? Thanks, Alex [Wing] I think it is caused by inaccurate timer of Intel's older GFW. Overtime of IDE

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Guest firmware PATCH]Load fpswa driver for windows

2007-07-24 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Is it necessary for the GFW to closely track tianocore? I would think we could take a snapshot and stay with it until there's sufficient reason to update. In fact we don't closely track tianocore but there are some good reasons to update in the near future: Adding NVRAM requires

[Xen-ia64-devel] [Guest firmware PATCH]Load fpswa driver for windows

2007-07-18 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Tristan: This patch fixes windows fpswa.efi driver load issue. please check in it with other patches, so that we can do a normal test on open GFW. thanks load_fpswa.patch Description: load_fpswa.patch ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list

[Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][Patch]Fix dom0 crash when vti destroyed

2007-07-11 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Event channel destruction is moved ahead, this patch do corresponding modification in IA64 side. It fixes dom0 crash when VTI destroyed. Signed-off-by, Zhang Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED] fix_xen0_crash_on_vti.patch Description: fix_xen0_crash_on_vti.patch

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Destroy VTI domain would cause Xen crashing inlatest changeset 15557

2007-07-11 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
It seems that commenting out the following line will fix. But I haven't confirmed/tested it. in vmx_init.c static void vmx_release_assist_channel(struct vcpu *v) { -free_xen_event_channel(v, v-arch.arch_vmx.xen_port); +//free_xen_event_channel(v, v-arch.arch_vmx.xen_port); }

[Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][Open guest firmware patch]Enable windows on open guest firmware

2007-07-09 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Tristan: Attachment is a series of patches which enable windows on open guest firmware. The details as below: Fix compiling patches: Add_build_script.patch: Add a script which make compiling process smooth Remove_unused_headerfile.patch: remove unused headerfile which block

[Xen-ia64-devel] Windows can boot on open GFW now

2007-07-05 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Tristan: After long time debugging, windows can boot on open GFW now. The last issue is wrong memory mapping when GFW do memory scan. So there are total four issues block windows. Showed below: 1. SetupBrowser.,efi issue. I will try build -v to see if it can be solved. 2.

[Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH]Fix a un-compatible solecism

2007-07-02 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Alex: typeof((u64)vpsr.cpl) un-supported by gcc-3.x.x Signed-off-by, Zhang Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED] bit_fix.patch Description: bit_fix.patch ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH] Fix NVRAM data can notbesaved when guest execute reboot instruction

2007-06-28 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Alex: This is new one per you comments. It also fixes NVRAM save when execute xm reboot in Xend -Original Message- From: Zhang, Xing Z Sent: 2007年6月28日 15:07 To: Zhang, Xing Z; 'Alex Williamson' Cc: 'xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com' Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64

[Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH]Fix incorrect NVRAM saving if domain destroyed by error configure

2007-06-27 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Nvram saving is always executed whereas domain destroyed by an error configure parameter. In this case, Nvram saving function will get a wrong address where NVRAM data located by GFW and save garbage data into NVRM file. Configure a wrong vif parameter can expose this issue. This patch fix the

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH]Fix incorrect NVRAM saving ifdomain destroyed by error configure

2007-06-27 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
NOTE: this patch must with new GFW. we will send out it ASAP From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zhang, Xing Z Sent: 2007年6月27日 18:32 To: xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH]Fix incorrect

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH] Fix NVRAM data can notbesaved when guest execute reboot instruction

2007-06-27 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Why must the hook be implemented in xc_ia64_hvm_build.c? It's definitely the obvious candidate, but we could also make it an architecture dependent static inline in something like vl.h, where the overloading occurs now. The overloading is a nice trick, but a context dependent function like

[Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH] Fix NVRAM data can not be saved when guest execute reboot instruction

2007-06-26 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Different with old Xen, executing reboot instruction in guest will not fall into destroy() function of Xend in current changeset. This makes NVRAM save not work when guest reboot. The patch fixes this issue. It is a little dirty because I can't find a more elegant way. Alex, If you agree with

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH] Fix NVRAM data can not besaved when guest execute reboot instruction

2007-06-26 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
the function with a #def is pretty ugly. Thanks, [Zhang, Xing Z] Thanks your comments. But seems xc_domain.c belongs to libxenctrl.so while xc_ia64_hvm_build.c belongs to libxenguest.so. Can the function in libxenctrl.so call a function which in libxenguest.so? I add a hook in xc_domain.c

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] [patch] increase xen-heap-size basedon nodes-shift

2007-06-16 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Unfortunately it breaks VTi domains somehow. My system hangs when I try to xm create one. Thanks, Thats bizarre given it's a simple heap increase. However I cannot help debug this right now as I don't have a box with VT to play with right now. [Zhang, Xing Z] Hi Sorensen, I have some

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] New tree issues (domUrestartanddomVTibootissues)

2007-06-14 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
image. [Zhang, Xing Z] Thanks for your advices. I agree we need do more thought on how to save nvram data. I ever intended to save it to GFW binary, but GFW is shared by multiple domains, save nvram in it will complicate things. I have poor knowledge on how to pygrub work, but I will go

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] New tree issues(domUrestartanddomVTibootissues)

2007-06-14 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
[Zhang, Xing Z] I am afraid you need use version of GFW which is Flash.fd.2007.06.05. Nvram patch need support by GFW. Why would I need any GFW? I'm only booting PV domains on this system. [Zhang, Xing Z] I can't reproduce this issue(with changeset 15342). This error info only

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] New tree issues (domU restartanddomVTibootissues)

2007-06-14 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
in the guest image. I don't really like the idea of saving NVRAM on the disk. Real machines don't do that so why should we do that. If you really want to save NVRAM, an EFI tool can do the work. [Zhang, Xing Z] Do you mean save NVRAM to guest image then use EFI tool to do load/save ? It's

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] New tree issues (domU restart and domVTi bootissues)

2007-06-13 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
- domU restart. DomU can't be restarted again. This is because nvram patch. It is already fixed in upstream tree by c/s 15265:634b7f7f8584. [Zhang, Xing Z] I will look into this. - domVTi guest firmware can't load elilo. domVTi boots and then efi shell shows up. But it can't load

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] New tree issues (domU restart and domVTibootissues)

2007-06-13 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
be based on the domain name, since that already has a requirement to be unique. Thanks, [Zhang, Xing Z] It uses domain name. However, I think domain name also causes collision. So I intend to change it to image path. Any comment? BTW: I failed to build the newest Changeset. I just pulled a linux

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] New tree issues (domU restart anddomVTibootissues)

2007-06-13 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
-Original Message- [Zhang, Xing Z] It uses domain name. However, I think domain name also causes collision. So I intend to change it to image path. Any comment? What do you mean by image path? Can you give an example? [Zhang, Xing Z] For example, if your image path in configure

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] New tree issues (domU restartanddomVTibootissues)

2007-06-13 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
naming the nvram file using the domain name. What collisions do you foresee with domain names? Seems like the ideal scenario would be to save the nvram on the EFI partition (/efi/xen/nvram). Maybe the libfsimage functionality used by pygrub would make this possible. [Zhang, Xing Z] Yes, image path

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Booting Windows on Open Source GFW

2007-06-11 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
can send to me SetupBrowser.dll and I will try to understand the failure reason. [Zhang, Xing Z] I don't think SetupBrowser.dll is built, pls see the attachment which is produced in compiling time. It's just a null file. The error info I have sent to you before. [Zhang, Xing Z] With your

[Xen-ia64-devel] Recall: Booting Windows on Open Source GFW

2007-06-11 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Zhang, Xing Z would like to recall the message, Booting Windows on Open Source GFW. ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel

[Xen-devel][Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH]Fix XenU blocked by Nvram

2007-06-11 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Keir: Due to NVRAM patch still in xen-staging tree, I send the patch to here. Hope it can be quickly checked in, so that RH can pick up this patch from xen-unstable tree. Thx:-) Description: When XenU distroying, it will fall into NVRAM saving path. Due to there is no NVRAM

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Booting Windows on Open Source GFW

2007-06-08 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: Tristan Gingold Subject: RE: Booting Windows on Open Source GFW Quoting Zhang, Xing Z [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Tristan: After commenting #include xen/xen.h in acpi2_0.h, I pass the building and get the binary. This is a good news. We are making progress

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Booting Windows on Open Source GFW

2007-06-05 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Great Thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年6月5日 15:57 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alex Williamson; Xen-ia64-devel; Zhang, Xing Z Subject: Re: Booting Windows on Open Source GFW Quoting Zhang, Xing Z [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Booting Windows on Open Source GFW

2007-06-05 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Oh, it's great.thx -Original Message- From: Tristan Gingold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年6月6日 6:01 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alex Williamson; Xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: Booting Windows on Open Source GFW Hi, if you want to boot Windows, you may want to add

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Booting Windows on Open Source GFW

2007-06-05 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
:35:21: xen/xen.h: No such file or directory -Original Message- From: Tristan Gingold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年6月6日 6:00 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alex Williamson; Xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: Booting Windows on Open Source GFW Hi, I have tried to rebuild GFW

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: complie qestion about open source GFW

2007-05-30 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: complie qestion about open source GFW On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:58:08AM +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote: Hi Tristan: From EDK2 buildnotes.txt, I get below info: [...] On Itanium?Processors the gcc compiler does not support

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: complie qestion about open source GFW

2007-05-30 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
: 2007年5月27日 6:08 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: complie qestion about open source GFW On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:58:08AM +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote: Hi Tristan: From EDK2 buildnotes.txt, I get below info: [...] On Itanium?Processors

RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: complie qestion about open source GFW

2007-05-30 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
I am sorry for resending this letter. Because our mail sever told me it sent failed yesterday. Now I see your reply, pls ignore this. thx From: Zhang, Xing Z Sent: 2007年5月31日 9:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com; Zhang, Xing Z

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: complie qestion about open source GFW

2007-05-30 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
] Sent: 2007年5月31日 3:54 To: Zhang, Xing Z Cc: Tristan Gingold; xen-ia64-devel Subject: Re: complie qestion about open source GFW On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:38:45PM +0800, Zhang, Xing Z wrote: Hi Tristan: Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, I am still broken by some issues

[Xen-ia64-devel] [NEWS] NVRAM coming

2007-05-24 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi all: I am pleased say that NVRAM has been checked in Xen staging tree (changeset: 15132:17f6163ae930c007d13abc1e3dbc06a624fb5a21). Thanks for all your efforts on pushing Cambridge to pay attention to it. We will release corresponding GFW soon. Thx☺ Good good study,day day up

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [Xen-devel][PATCH]NVRAM support for IA64

2007-05-23 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Good good study,day day up ! ^_^ -Wing(zhang xin) OTC,Intel Corporation -Original Message- From: Akio Takebe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2007年5月24日 9:50 To: Zhang, Xing Z; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ian Campbell Cc: Alex Williamson; xen-ia64-devel; Keir Fraser; Ewan Mellor Subject: Re

[Xen-ia64-devel] complie qestion about open source GFW

2007-05-22 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Tristan: From EDK2 buildnotes.txt, I get below info: A Word on gcc for Processor Architectures Currently gcc support is limited to IA-32 builds, generating IA-32 PE32 images. The X64 bit

[Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-devel][PATCH]NVRAM support for IA64

2007-05-17 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Ian: Attachment is a patch implementing NVRAM for IA64. The patch is to add patch through libxc to remove the file access dependency from Qemu. The patch doesn't touch much of the common code, just add a hook in Xend and a HVM param in XEN. Hope your comments on it. Nvram is

[Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] support more than 8vcpu for windows sever 2003 SP1

2007-05-17 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Add two PAL calls and one SAL call. windows sever 2003 SP1 or SP2 can boot more than 8 cpus on native, but only 8 vcpus in VTI. This patch make VTI has same behavior with native. Signed-off-by, Xu Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by, Zhang Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good good

[Xen-ia64-devel] open source GFW compiling issue

2007-05-15 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
Hi Tristan: I try to compile your GFW on my box but meet a issue. I followed your steps mentioned in README file, at 7th stage: edk2-xen build I got below error info: sections: [fwimage] SetupBrowser.dll = SetupBrowser.efi [fwimage] FwImage : error E:

[Xen-ia64-devel] [Xen-ia64][PATCH] _OSI interface for Tristan's GFW

2007-05-10 Thread Zhang, Xing Z
This patch enable _OSI interface in DSDT table. So Xen can know which OS running on guest BTW: Due to my EDK2 environment is broken, so I don't compile it. But I think it's ok. It requires the version of ASL complier is 3.0 Signed-off-by, Zhang Xin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good good study,day

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