pk wrote:

> Aragorn wrote:
>
>> Okay... Looks like I've got myself another problem here... :-/
>>
>> I'm using the Gentoo Xen kernel sources, based upon kernel 2.6.22-r6.
>> The /dom0/ kernel built effortlessly, but when I build the /domU/ kernel,
>> I get the following - I'm typing this over by hand as I can't copy paste
>> from the other machine:
>>
>> arch/x68_64/kernel/built-in.o: In function 'intel_bugs':
>> early-quirks.c.text.intel_bugs+0x34): undefined reference to
>> 'quirk_intel_irqbalance' make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>> make: *** [_all] Error 2
>
> You might find these threads from Gentoo forums useful:
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-596489.html
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-579446.html

Brilliant!! Dude, you're a lifesaver, thanks a bunch! ;-)

While most workarounds seemed to disable PCI or SMP, the patch I found there
- basically editing a file and adding the...

#ifndef CONFIGURE_XEN_UNPRIVILEGED

...
...

#endif

.... made the kernel build normally. ;-) So now I have SMP and I can still
directly access PCI devices from within /domU./

Now all I have to do is figure out how to make the /domU/ character mode
console bind to my nVidia PCIe card rather than the paravirtualized Radeon
PCI card. It should be no problem in X11, but I'm not too familiar with
how the character mode console binds to a graphics adapter. Any clues on
that?

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Aragorn
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