Re: problem on dell r610

[Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

On Wed, 03 Nov 2010, you wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 07:32:31PM +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> > [...]
> > This is specific to ACPI -- or more specifically, configuration
> > of the Intel APIC system through ACPI. Can someone clarify how
> > and why Xen tries to use "mpacpi" (or ACPI at all) without LAPIC?
>
> NetBSD/Xen needs mpacpi to find the physical CPUs, and, I guess, to
> proper interrupt routings. But the lapic itself is entirely managed
> by the xen hypervisor and can't be acceded by the dom0 kenrel.

So is there a way to get this machine running?

cheers
mark