[Xen-devel] Re: Booting Xen on IA64 (for Dan Magenheimer)

[Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>]

The low-level serial output code in Xen/ia64 is likely
not working on your old Lion box.  The current serial output
code is a temporary hack and is probably not widely portable.
My plan is to replace it with the new early uart code added
to Linux/ia64 in 2.6.10 which should be more generic and
well-structured, but still may not support old Lion boxes.

If you or someone you work with is adept at low-level
serial port code and could write assembly to force output
to go to one of the Lion serial ports, I can show you how
to substitute it (see xen/include/asm-ia64/xenserial.h and
xen/arch/ia64/xenasm.S).  Otherwise it will be difficult to
make any progress until your Itanium2 "new shoes" arrive :-)

Dan

P.S. My comment about initrd was a mistake.  I saw vmlinuz.gz
and somehow understood it as initrd.gz. Sorry for misleading.




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