Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] remove _PS0 from the DSDTo

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Jason Kwon wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> On 02/28/2011 04:33 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> >>> However there is a simple workaround for it: just disable acpi in the
> >>> config file of the VM.
> >> I think recent Windows versions (Vista and newer) do not boot at all 
> >> without ACPI.
> >  
> > I am not suggesting to disable ACPI altogether. I am just saying that
> > the only way to get a recent Linux HVM guest to drive a VF is to disable
> > ACPI, unfortunately.
> > 
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> Has this hvmloader patch been finalized?  I updated to Xen 4.1 rc7/Dom0 
> 2.6.32.32, and saw that the register_slot ACPI fixes were in the Dom0 
> kernel, but not this hvmloader change.  I previously tested this patch 
> on Xen 4.1 rc4 and had success with it when booting linux guests.

we are trying to fix this on the Linux kernel side, we have two patches
waiting to be applied:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/28/296
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/8/212


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