FreeBSD PV i386 panics

[Sean Bruno]

On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:58 -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 07/26/11 11:35, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > I assume then, that the i386 PV instance cannot do more than 1 CPU at
> > this time?
> 
> Correct.  SMP support was clearly started but never completed.
> 
> > I note that if I scale the i386 PV Xen kernel past 855MB, I get an insta
> > panic at boot.  I assume that there's a hard limit on the amount of RAMS
> > we can use here?
> 
> There's a problem somewhere in FreeBSD's PV machine init code, but I haven't had
> an opportunity to track it down yet.  I hope to look at this some time soon (if
> I can access the xen box in the cluster?) but I've been swamped lately.
> 

Yup, you're on my list to get access today.  I'll get kerberos up and
running on the hypervisor so you can screw around in a bit.

Sean