Re: [Xen-devel] Problem: Pattern with vertical colored lines on the dom0 screen

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:14:44AM -0700, Kay, Allen M wrote:
> Thanks Pasi.  I will take a look at the FC13 wiki.
> 
> This is a T410 system.  There is no serial port but my guess is it has SOL.  
> Do you know of a good wiki on getting SOL working?
> 

Try this one:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole

-- Pasi

> Allen
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pasi Kärkkäinen [mailto:pasik@xxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:05 PM
> To: Kay, Allen M
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; Dietmar Hahn; Han, Weidong; 
> xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jean Guyader
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Problem: Pattern with vertical colored lines on the 
> dom0 screen
> 
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:54:05PM -0700, Kay, Allen M wrote:
> > Thanks Konrad.  I got hold of a T410 and able to duplicate the problem with 
> > the 2.6.36-rc5 kernel.
> > 
> > Currently, I'm encountering a problem with the latest xen/pvops kernel.  
> > I'm getting "No root device found ... Boot has failed, sleep forever."
> > 
> > If anyone knows how to fix this (i.e. which config to turn on), please let 
> > me know.  My base OS is FC13.
> > 
> 
> Does your initrd image have/load the proper driver for your disk controller? 
> Did you see: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Fedora13Xen4Tutorial ?
> 
> Does that system have a serial port, or SOL (on a management chip) ?
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
> > Allen
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 9:47 AM
> > To: Dietmar Hahn; Han, Weidong; Kay, Allen M
> > Cc: Jean Guyader; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Problem: Pattern with vertical colored lines on 
> > the dom0 screen
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 02:06:26PM +0200, Dietmar Hahn wrote:
> > > Hi Jean,
> > > 
> > > many thanks for this hint! This saved me a lot of time searching through
> > > the specs.
> > > 
> > > Am 24.09.2010 schrieb Jean Guyader:
> > > > The problem we saw with that the bit 10 of the GCC (offset 0x52 on the
> > > > PCH config space)
> > > > wasn't set after the bios. This bit probably enable the shadow GTT
> > > > (created with the GTT + vt-d).
> > > 
> > > Yes, the same problem here!
> > > I found the following patch, maybe something similar would help here too?
> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/132771
> > 
> > There looks to be another in the upstream kernels:
> > 
> > check_tylersburg_isoch
> > > 
> > > So I have to hit the bios development :-(
> > 
> > Well, we should probably provide a quirk check in the Xen code.
> > 
> > Copying the Intel folks to see if they any ideas on adding this in the 
> > Intel VT-d
> > code paths. Or they might have already a patch ready for this?
> > > 
> > > > The vertical stripes means GTT fault.
> > > > 
> > > > Jean
> > > 
> > > Many thanks!
> > > Dietmar.
> > > 
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