[LinuxBIOS] Gigabyte contact

[Alan Carvalho de Assis]

Hi guys,
I am looking for gigabyte contacts to request a mainboard donation
because I want add support to it on LBdistro.

I contacted Gigabyte Brazil (Digitrom) but they don't manufacture this
board here in Brazil and don't make efforts to contact Gigabyte
international do request one.

Then if someone has a channel of communication with Gigabyte let me know.

Cheers,

Alan

[LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI

[john]

Hello,

I'm running Fedora 7 with Xen kernel on this motherboard with AMD 
6000+ CPU. Virtual Machine Manager tells me Virtualization is disabled 
in the BIOS. Originally I was using BIOS version F8. Gigabyte gave me a 
beta copy (F9a) but it didn't help.
    My question is: does Linux BIOS enable Virtualization on this board 
so it will work properly with Xen?

Thanks in advance.

John
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[LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI

[yhlu]

On 6/27/07, john  wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm running Fedora 7 with Xen kernel on this motherboard with AMD
>
> 6000+ CPU. Virtual Machine Manager tells me Virtualization is disabled
> in the BIOS. Originally I was using BIOS version F8. Gigabyte gave me a
> beta copy (F9a) but it didn't help.
>     My question is: does Linux BIOS enable Virtualization on this board
> so it will work properly with Xen?

it is enabled by default.

for using xen with LinuxBIOS in Rev F and later:
You need to use LinuxBIOS + Kernel + kexec + to load xen.

there is amd64 buildrom that you can used, and put compiled kexec with
static on /boot.

It seems i sent the kexec shell scripts some time ago. you could dig
it out. otherwise I could resent it tonight.

YH

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[Stefan Reinauer]

* yhlu  [070627 18:58]:
> for using xen with LinuxBIOS in Rev F and later:
> You need to use LinuxBIOS + Kernel + kexec + to load xen.

Why is that? Multiboot?

Can we go the other way round? LinuxBIOS+Xen+DOM0 in the kernel?

Stefan

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[Peter Stuge]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:37:53PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> yhlu  [070627 18:58]:
> > for using xen with LinuxBIOS in Rev F and later:
> > You need to use LinuxBIOS + Kernel + kexec + to load xen.
>
> Why is that? Multiboot?

FILO should do multiboot?
> Can we go the other way round? LinuxBIOS+Xen+DOM0 in the kernel?

LB+FILO+xen+dom0, yeah?

//Peter

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[Stefan Reinauer]

* Peter Stuge  [070627 19:54]:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:37:53PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > yhlu  [070627 18:58]:
> > > for using xen with LinuxBIOS in Rev F and later:
> > > You need to use LinuxBIOS + Kernel + kexec + to load xen.
> >
> > Why is that? Multiboot?
>
> FILO should do multiboot?

Unfortunately it does not. Not hard to implement, but I think it is
better to wait for grub2.

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[yhlu]

On 6/27/07, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> yhlu  [070627 18:58]:
> > for using xen with LinuxBIOS in Rev F and later:
> > You need to use LinuxBIOS + Kernel + kexec + to load xen.
>
> Why is that? Multiboot?
>
> Can we go the other way round? LinuxBIOS+Xen+DOM0 in the kernel?

Mulitboot.

and

more guys is using SATA disk instead ot PATA ide.

YH

[LinuxBIOS] GA-M57SLI

[Stefan Reinauer]

* yhlu  [070627 21:40]:
> > Why is that? Multiboot?
> >
> > Can we go the other way round? LinuxBIOS+Xen+DOM0 in the kernel?
>
> Mulitboot.

Ok. Grub2 will solve that.
> more guys is using SATA disk instead ot PATA ide.

This should not be an issue if we manage to fit Xen and DOM0 into the
flash chip.

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[Uwe Hermann]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:44:13PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> yhlu  [070627 21:40]:
> > > Why is that? Multiboot?
> > >
> > > Can we go the other way round? LinuxBIOS+Xen+DOM0 in the kernel?
> >
> > Mulitboot.
>
> Ok. Grub2 will solve that.
> > more guys is using SATA disk instead ot PATA ide.
>
> This should not be an issue if we manage to fit Xen and DOM0 into the
> flash chip.

Anyone willing to try? :) I guess it should be possible with a large
enough chip. It's probably best to try to cook up something for QEMU
first...

Uwe.

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[David H. Barr]

On 7/2/07, Uwe Hermann  wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:44:13PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> > yhlu  [070627 21:40]:
> > > > Why is that? Multiboot?
> > > >
> > > > Can we go the other way round? LinuxBIOS+Xen+DOM0 in the kernel?
> > >
> > > Mulitboot.
> >
> > Ok. Grub2 will solve that.
> > > more guys is using SATA disk instead ot PATA ide.
> >
> > This should not be an issue if we manage to fit Xen and DOM0 into the
> > flash chip.
>
> Anyone willing to try? :) I guess it should be possible with a large
> enough chip.

I've been waiting for this.  Four-socket quad-core (16-way!) with Xen
in the Flash part sends chills up my spine.  A true virtualization
appliance!

-dhbarr.

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[ron minnich]

we're going to put kvm into flash. Xen is really falling out of favor
and kvm is winning. This was very clear at OLS as I talked to vendors.

ron

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[yhlu]

then linuxbios + tiny kernel with kvm could load other os and other linux.

YH

On 7/3/07, ron minnich  wrote:
> we're going to put kvm into flash. Xen is really falling out of favor
> and kvm is winning. This was very clear at OLS as I talked to vendors.
>
> ron

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[ron minnich]

On 7/3/07, yhlu  wrote:
> then linuxbios + tiny kernel with kvm could load other os and other linux.

yes. Or kvm could *BE* the tiny kernel, with just the right drivers.
And, for other drivers, you leave that on disk. There's a lot of
options here.

ron