Re: bnx driver in 5.99.7 panics under xen 3.3.1

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

Fredrik Pettai wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Mike Bowie wrote:
>> Mike Bowie wrote:
>>
>> To summarize the final setup:
>> * ACPI disabled for Xen by adding "acpi=off" to it's entry in /boot.cfg
>> * ACPI disabled for dom0 by building a kernel excluding it
>> * Xen's RAM access restricted by limiting it's RAM with mem=3072MB
> 
> We had a similar problem (already in NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 + XEN 3.0) on our
> Dell 2950:s. This was due to a BIOS bug (the reserved memory (~700MB)
> for the PCI bus wasn't presented correctly or at all, it think. Ragge
> knows more about this than I do...).
> So once the BIOS was upgraded to the latest version, we could remove the
> memory limitation from XEN and it runs stable now (NetBSD 4.0 + XEN
> 3.1.2-4).
> 
>>
>> * dom0's ohci support removed by excluding such devices from the kernel
> 

That's good to know... I had considered a buggy BIOS initially, but
3.0.3 was the latest at the time.  I'll certainly keep an eye out for
updates and will post accordingly should it resolve the issue.

Cheers,

Mike.