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On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 at 19:58, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 at 23:42, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 18/10/2018 19:45, Aaron Gray wrote:

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 ?

What didn't work. What went wrong?

What logs do you have from the attempt?

We're not mind readers. Noone here can divine the cause of your failure from nothing.

Sorry I will post a proper report over the weekend.

Heres what I am getting now which is different from before with Xen 4.9 on F28. Before it was actually booting past the [U]EFI stage. And I am not sure why it is faultering oon this. I have turned off UEFI on the Motherboard.

Loading Xen 4.10.2.config ...
error: file `EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi/module.mod' not found.
error: file `EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi/multiboot.mod' not found.
error: can't find command `multiboot'.
Loading Linux 4.16.3-301.fc28.x86_64 ...
error: can't find command `module'.
Loading initial ramdisk ...
error: file `EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi/module.mod' not found.
error: can't find command `module'.

Loading Xen 4.10.2.config ...
error: file `EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi/module3.mod' not found.
error: file `EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi/multiboot3.mod' not found.
error: can't find command `multiboot3'.
Loading Linux 4.16.3-301.fc28.x86_64 ...
error: can't find command `module3'.
Loading initial ramdisk ...
error: file `EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi/module3.mod' not found.
error: can't find command `module2'.

I have managed to install, boot, and run F28 in KVM'ed F28 so my hardware is supported properly by KVM.

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron Gray

Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.

Re: [Xen-devel] Intel Z270 support