Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: Pass the location of the ACPI RSDP to DOM0.

[Philip Wernersbach <philip.wernersbach@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can't post patches inline because my mail client corrupts the
patches with extra white space. The linked patch should meet all
requirements listed in Submitting_Xen_Patches.

Thanks,
Philip Wernersbach


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 19:24 -0500, Philip Wernersbach wrote:
> > Oops! The correct link to the patch is
> > http://gist.github.com/philip-wernersbach/7997637.
>
> Please see http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Patches for advice on
> how to submit a patch.
>
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Philip Wernersbach
> > <philip.wernersbach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hello Everyone,
> > >
> > > I recently ran into a problem deploying Xen on a new IBM server. The
> > > problem was that DOM0 couldn't find the ACPI RSDP, since newer IBM
> > > servers only allow access to that information through EFI. Since Xen
> > > nukes DOM0's access to EFI, DOM0 couldn't find this information, and
> > > so it proceeded with degraded functionality.
> > >
> > > I made a patch to correct this, and uploaded it to
> > > http://gist.github.com/philip-wernersbach/6473042, in hopes that I can
> > > get this patch included into mainline Xen.
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Philip Wernersbach
> >
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