Re: HEAD UP acpi/mpbios/ioapic support commited

[Sarton O'Brien <bsd-xen%roguewrt.org@localhost>]

You little ripper. Good work Manuel.

Sarton


On Friday 29 September 2006 05:00, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> I just commited support for ACPI, MPBIOS and ioapic for Xen3/dom0 to
> current. This should help for peoples using NetBSD/Xen as dom0 on a Xen3
> SMP system. See i386/conf/XEN3_DOM0 for configuration details; note that
> XEN3_DOM0 has ACPI, MPBIOS and ioapic support by default.
>
> There is a user-visible change in the way CPUs are configured, and you'll
> have to update your kernel config files: there are now two different
> objects for physical and virtual CPUs (physical CPUs are only usefull in
> dom0, to get and print the APIC ids of the physical CPUs - this is
> informational only). For all Xen3 kernel config files you have to move
> cpu* at mainbus?
> to
> vcpu* at hypervisor?
>
> For dom0 kernels you also have to keep cpu* at mainbus? (i.e. have both
> cpu and vcpu). This is a first (very small, but still :) step toward
> SMP support ...