[Xen-devel] Problems booting Xen on Toshiba Satellite L505

["Roger Cruz" <roger.cruz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have tried Xen-3.4.2 and Xen-4.1-unstable on a new i3 Toshiba Satellite L505 and with both versions, I get a blinking cursor upon boot.  I used the code from 3.4.2 to narrow down the problem to this section of code in x86_64.S

        /* Initialise IDT with simple error defaults. */
        leaq    ignore_int(%rip),%rcx
        movl    %ecx,%eax
        andl    $0xFFFF0000,%eax
        orl     $0x00008E00,%eax
        shlq    $32,%rax
        movl    %ecx,%edx
        andl    $0x0000FFFF,%edx
        orl     $(__HYPERVISOR_CS64<<16),%edx
        orq     %rdx,%rax
        shrq    $32,%rcx
        movl    %ecx,%edx
        leaq    idt_table(%rip),%rdi
        movl    $256,%ecx
1:      movq    %rax,(%rdi)         
        movq    %rdx,8(%rdi)
        addq    $16,%rdi
        loop    1b

The code never gets out of the loop to execute the following lines:

        /* Pass off the Multiboot info structure to C land. */
        mov     multiboot_ptr(%rip),%edi
        call    __start_xen

By playing around with the loop counter in ECX, I determined that loading vectors 0-6 works (ie, it gets out of the loop)... but as soon as vector 7 is written, we never get out of the loop and I get a blinking cursor.  Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks

Roger R. Cruz

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