Re: [Xen-devel] Intel Z270 support

[Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 19:11, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 18/10/2018 18:57, Aaron Gray wrote:
> I have two ASUS PRIME Z270-A machines based on Intel Z270 chipset and
> am wondering about when support will be available for them and what I
> can do to speed this up.
>
> But I have not done anything to do with kernel work since years ago
> when I read a lot of the main parts of the Linux 2.4 Kernel. Also I
> did code to get into and out of protected mode before this.
>
> Heres the datasheets that cover the chipset :-
>
> https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/200-series-chipset-pch-datasheet-vol-1.html
> https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/200-series-chipset-pch-datasheet-vol-2.html
>

Xen doesn't have a list of individual support chips/systems, because
kernels don't really work like that.  We work feature by feature, or
device by device.

You appear to have a Broadwell-era system.  Any recent Linux distro
should work for you, including the provided Xen package.

I tried installing Xen 4.9 provided with Fedora 28 but it did not work. Can I get support with this please ?

Aaron

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