On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 03:38:30PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:31 +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > > Hi Ian, > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:26:08PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > [..snip..] > > > > d-i should have installed the 686-bigmem image when running under Xen > > > > due to the use of the 686-bigmem kernel for the Xen variant of the > > > > installer. I'll investigate why this didn't happen. > > > > > > It seems to be down to: > > > > > /proc/cpuinfo: vendor_id : CentaurHauls > > > > > > which due to the changeset below which will cause the installer to > > > choose the -486 kernel. > > > > > > Strangely the 686 kernel seems to work for you in dom0 and domU but I > > > guess you were just lucky somehow? Or is the changeset below too > > > general? > > This is not a Nehemiah but an Esther CPU which seems to support nopl (I > > checked with a small program). Futhermore it seems the whole nopl issue > > got fixed in the kernel: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/5/374 > > (b74b06c5f6612a72298f37baa65460a59c26ca67) > > but unfortunately not for 2.6.26: > > $ git-name-rev b74b06c5f6612a72298f37baa65460a59c26ca67 > > b74b06c5f6612a72298f37baa65460a59c26ca67 tags/v2.6.27-rc6~4^2~10 > > (and it doesn't seem to be in any of the 2.6.26.X series). > > > > So to me it seems the workaround can be removed: > > * removed for VIA Ester altogeher > > * removed vor VIA Nehemiah once we ship 2.6.27 > > Do you happen to know the Family/Model for the Nehemiah? > > Your cpuinfo shows that Esther is Family 6 model 9. > > Perhaps Nehemiah is model 10 since that is the other model removed by > the patch? It's the other way around. Esther is family 6/model 10 (maybe you confused this with the stepping) and Nehemiah is family 6/model 9 [1].
> BTW, I just tested on a non-VIA system and the correct kernel is > installed (not surprising...) Cool. -- Guido > > Ian. [1] http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2006-05/msg06226.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
