First patch to reorganize the manual to match the structure in the
Xen3DocsToDo Wiki entry.
Incorporates a patch from Nivedita Singhvi to clean up the Further
Support Chapter.
Signed-off-by: Robb Romans <FMJ@us.ibm.com>
Twisted Matrix is no longer necessary for Xen. Removed from the
pre-requisites listed in the user documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andrew D. Ball <aball@us.ibm.com>
Now that hotplug seems to be necessary to boot new domains (at least, to
get disk access in those domains), add a note to the installation guide
mentioning this dependency.
Signed-off-by: Michael Vrable <mvrable@cs.ucsd.edu>
explicitly specifies a 'com1=' or 'com2=' configuration
string. This prevents users from being surprised when Xen
stops domain0 from accessing serial port registers.
On ia64 we still allow serial ports to get automatically
configured and locked down even if no 'com1' is specified
on the command line. This maintains the default preferred
by the IA64 developers.
Also, the method for specifying 'use existing baud rate'
has changed. Instead of specifying com1=0, you must now
specify e.g., com1=auto
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Add a manual 'sync_console' boot parameter that forces synchronous
console output. May be useful for systems that crash unexpectedly
and lose the last chunk of console output.
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
vnet-xend.txt, user.tex, README:
Update the Linux kernel version number from 2.6.9 to 2.6 or 2.6.11
in several places in documentation.
Original patch provided by Andrew Thompson <andrewkt@aktzero.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
By default do not enable local APIC if disabled by the BIOS. This
matches Linux behaviour and ought to improve stability on buggy
hardware/firmware (laptops in particular). As in Linux, you can
forcibly enable the APIC with 'lapic' command-line option, or
forcibly ignore it with 'nolapic'.
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Remove generic 'fast trap' from the Xen public interfaces. Internally
within Xen, we automatically set up direct trap for int 0x80, which is
the only 'fast trap' vector that we ever supported anyway.
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Add 'apic={verbose,debug}' option to Xen. Same meaning as on Linux
command line, and automatically propagated to domain0 command line.
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Change the Xen command-line parameter syntax. 'noacpi' and
'ignorebiostables' are gone. 'dom0_mem' can optionally take a k/m/g
suffix to specify units (default units are still kilobytes).
Also added:
1. 'mem=xxx' to specify maximum physical RAM address (supports
k/m/g suffix)
2. acpi=xxx/acpi_skip_timer_override/noapic: These all have same
semantics as in Linux. They are *automatically* propagated to
the domain0 command line, as dom0 shares resposibility for
platform initialisation.
Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
