[olug] opensuse 11 & xen kernel

[Jon Larsen]

That's what I thought.  I was forwarded this page which mentioned a patch.

http://www.raskas.be/blog/2008/01/17/3ware-module-refuses-to-load-with-xen-kernel/#more-77

The patch -

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org/msg10302.html

I'm going to re-compile the module with the changes to see how it goes.

Jon L.

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Carl Lundstedt wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:25:55 -0500
> From: Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] opensuse 11 & xen kernel
> 
> 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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