Re: bnx driver in 5.99.7 panics under xen 3.3.1

[Mike Bowie <mbowie%buzmo.com@localhost>]

Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> Mike Bowie wrote:
> 
>>> I remember having strange issues with a 4GB ram dell 2950 and xen
>>> (3.1.x/i386).
>>> The dom0 kernel would segfault unless I reduce the amount of ram seen by
>>> the xen kernel using mem=3072M on the xen.gz boot line (xen.gz did see
>>> something like 3200M as it's a 32bit kernel).
>>> A supermicro server also with 4GB ram didn't have troubles with the same
>>> xen and dom0 kernels.
> ...
>> It would appear that adding the mem restriction to Xen did the trick.  I
> 
> I had similar problems with our Dell PowerEdge 860 with 4 GB RAM. That
> "fix" really SHOULD be documented in our howto
> (http://www.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto.html)...
> 
> Martti

Hi Martti,

The issue isn't quite resolved at my end.  I'm afraid dom0 has only
booted for me twice now, it seems to stall once the kernel passes to
init.  It's entirely possible that it's a separate issue, but I've not
managed to figure anything out at all just yet.

That said, the howto would certainly benefit from some notes on using
boot vs grub and a mention that reducing Xen's RAM may resolve similar
issues.

Mike.