We discussed on irc the problems I have been having trying to get buster's released kernel to run on the rochesters, which is wanted to upgrade osstest to buster (which is currently Debian stable).
Unfortunately our previous conversations don't seem to have been recorded anywhere. Let's try at least to write things down now. The symptom is that the machine thinks the network link is down, and no network stuff happens, so the installer doesn't work. (I don't think I have checked at the switch end whether the link is actually up.) You suggested that maybe adding iommu.passthrough=1 to the kernel command line might help. But it hasn't. I have a memory of discussing the next steps and I think we discussed upgrading the firmware. If I remember rightly we agreed (with Juergen) that upgrading the firmware on one of the two rochester machines would be an acceptable risk. Can we file a ticket to have that done by our onsite technician ? Other options would include trying a buster-backports kernel, if we had some reason to think that a newer kernel would be better. Certainly if this turns out to be a kernel bug, and a workaround is awkward, the best fix would be to get the bugfix backported to the Debian buster kernel (either the stable series, or -backports). Currently I have rochester1 booked out and you are free to play with it if you like. We'll negotiate about that on irc. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
