Re: [Xen-devel] dmidecode doesn't work under xen 4.1.1 on certain hardware

[Anthony Wright <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/09/2011 14:28, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>>> (XEN) WARNING: Only the first 16 GB of the physical memory map can be 
>>>> accessed by Xen in 32-bit mode.
>>> That bites ^^^^
>>>> (XEN) Truncating RAM from 17825792kB to 16777216kB
>> Does this mean that 32 bit Xen can only use a maximum of 16GB of RAM?
>>
>> If so, is there a way to use 32 bit Xen tools with a 64 bit Xen hypervisor?
> Yes. I've been doing that without any trouble.
I tried to get this so work some time ago and failed. Do I need a 64 bit
Dom0 kernel with a 64 bit xen hypervisor or can I get away with a 32 bit
Dom0 kernel?
>> The patch works perfectly. I've attached a copy of the kernel log with
>> 'debug loglevel=8'
> Yeeey! Great. Thanks for testing it. We are re-doing that whole E820 parsing
> for the next version of Linux (3.2) so will integrate the "essence" of that
> patch.
>
> Would you be up for testing a different variant of that patch just to make
> sure?
Not a problem, ship me the patch when you're ready. I'm running 3.0.4 at
the moment and would prefer to stick with 3.0.x for now, so hope that
won't be a problem.

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