Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.2.0 Release Plan / TODO

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:47:24AM -0400, Ben Guthro wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:35:44AM -0400, Ben Guthro wrote:
> >> I may have claimed success on this second one too soon. Subsequent
> >> tests, and expansion to other systems shows S3 still to be a problem
> >> on these laptops.
> >>
> >> Being a laptop, without a serial port, of course makes this more
> >> difficult to debug.
> >> I'll continue to look into it.
> >>
> >
> > You probably know this already but here goes anyway..
> > you could use an expresscard serial card, or if the laptop has Intel vPro 
> > (AMT),
> > then it has a Serial Over LAN (SOL) port, which can be used for Xen 
> > debugging/logging.
> 
> This particular machine has neither.
> I'll look around for an alternate.
> 

Does it have mini PCI express? (the slot where you can put wlan adapter etc).

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-RS232-Express-Serial-MPEX2S952/dp/B003OCRW1Q

-- Pasi

> 
> 
> Ben
> 
> >
> > -- Pasi
> >
> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Ben Guthro <ben@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Good news on this front, as well - it seems to fix the "blinky power
> >> > button" failure, as well.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Ben Guthro <ben@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> FWIW, I ran this through 100 suspend / resume cycles successfully, on
> >> >> the machine where I could only do one before.
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm still waiting for a laptop to free up that exhibited the other S3
> >> >> failure where it went to sleep, but just pulsed the power LED when
> >> >> asked to wake up.
> >> >> I'm cautiously hopeful this fixes that problem, as well.
> >> >>
> >> >> Ben
> >> >>
> >> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >>>>>> On 03.09.12 at 11:42, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >>>> hypervisor, nice to have:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>     * S3 regression(s?) reported by Ben Guthro (Ben & Jan Beulich)
> >> >>>
> >> >>> So it looks like we got this nailed down (actually requiring two
> >> >>> fixes). Would it be intended to still get these in before the
> >> >>> release, or leave them for 4.3/4.2.1?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Jan
> >> >>>
> >> >>> NB:  I also found an unrelated issue earlier today where a
> >> >>> hypercall would return success when it actually failed, but I
> >> >>> won't even bother sending that out if the fixes needed here
> >> >>> aren't to be considered, as that's clearly minor compared to
> >> >>> the regression here.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
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