[olug] opensuse 11 & xen kernel

[Carl Lundstedt]

My top of the head guess would be some error in the memory allocation in
the driver (perhaps some 32 bit/64 bit stickyness).  I assume the kernel
and the driver are compiled with HIGHMEM and SMP turned on?  Can you
recompile the driver and kernel?

Carl
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 16:21 -0500, Jon Larsen wrote:
> We have a box at work that we're trying to get xen to run on.  It's 
> running opensuse 11, Intel Xeon 3Ghz, a 3Ware card with three 
> sata drives, and 8GB RAM.
> 
> When you boot the PAE kernel, everything is fine.  System boots, no 
> problem.
> 
> When you boot the XEN kernel, the boot bombs while loading the 3ware 
> 3w-9xxx driver.
> 
> The 3w-9xxx driver in the kernel source is newer than what is available on 
> the 3ware website.
> 
> If you drop the amount of memory to 2GB, the problem goes away.
> 
> Has anyone run into this issue with the 3w-9xxx bombing in a xen kernel?
> 
> Would you think that having a combined PAE and XEN kernel this issue would 
> be resolved?
> 
> Jon L.
> 
> 
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