Re: [Xen-devel] PVH and ACPI discussion

2019-01-04 Thread Rian Quinn
With the research we are doing using Bareflank, we set both of these flags and also tell Linux that almost all (but a small part) of the lower 1MB is free RAM to use as we don't emulate any of the legacy devices. From what we can tell so far, Linux seems to handle this fine without any complaints.

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH and ACPI discussion

2019-01-04 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 04.01.19 at 15:09, wrote: > Do you agree however that PVH DomU could maybe use reduced hardware > ACPI while Dom0 using whatever mode (reduced or not) is set by the > native ACPI tables? Yes, it's certainly worth exploring. Jan ___ Xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH and ACPI discussion

2019-01-04 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 06:10:29AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 03.01.19 at 18:45, wrote: > > While looking at some tangential issues I realized that the 'VGA Not > > Present' flag that Xen currently sets for PVH DomUs might be slightly > > different from what we expect it to mean. The purpo

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH and ACPI discussion

2019-01-04 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 03.01.19 at 18:45, wrote: > While looking at some tangential issues I realized that the 'VGA Not > Present' flag that Xen currently sets for PVH DomUs might be slightly > different from what we expect it to mean. The purpose was that Xen > would set this flag to denote there's no VGA MMIO r

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH and ACPI discussion

2019-01-04 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 03:42:18PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 1/3/19 12:45 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > > Hello, > > > > While looking at some tangential issues I realized that the 'VGA Not > > Present' flag that Xen currently sets for PVH DomUs might be slightly > > different from what we

Re: [Xen-devel] PVH and ACPI discussion

2019-01-03 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 1/3/19 12:45 PM, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > Hello, > > While looking at some tangential issues I realized that the 'VGA Not > Present' flag that Xen currently sets for PVH DomUs might be slightly > different from what we expect it to mean. The purpose was that Xen > would set this flag to denote t

[Xen-devel] PVH and ACPI discussion

2019-01-03 Thread Roger Pau Monné
Hello, While looking at some tangential issues I realized that the 'VGA Not Present' flag that Xen currently sets for PVH DomUs might be slightly different from what we expect it to mean. The purpose was that Xen would set this flag to denote there's no VGA MMIO region in the low 1MB, so that the