Re: Booting Domain0 - Problem Solved

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:25:39PM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:52:29PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 05:57:56AM -0700, John R. Shannon wrote:
> > > I needed to add ahd to XEN0.
> > 
> > Does it work properly ? If so I'll add it to XEN0
> 
> I think XEN0 should look more like GENERIC in terms of the the network
> and disk controller support that is built-in.  XENU makes sense to be
> stripped down as it can only use the devices that are exported by the
> privileged domain, but XEN0 needs to provide the network and disks to
> the guest domains, so it should support as many as it can by default.
> It was a minor stumbling block for me to install Xen for the first
> time when I saw that the amr(4) RAID controller in my rather common
> Dell PowerEdge server wasn't supported by XEN0 and that I would need
> to compile my own kernel.
> 
> I appreciate that NetBSD/xen is still a work-in-progress, but this
> change should make it easier for interested parties to test NetBSD/xen
> on their modern i386 hardware without needing to compile their own
> kernels.  Since Xen needs modern hardware to run anyway, I don't think
> the difference between a smaller and a larger default kernel are going
> to be significant details to most Xen users.

I added a buch of PCI devices to XEN0. It would be nice to have common file 
with device to be inclued by various kernel configs ... :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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