[Fedora-xen] PCI problems with Xen kernel on SiS motherboard

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 13:19 -0500, Winston Chang wrote:
> I just installed FC5-T3 on my computer.  With the normal kernel,  
> everthing works fine, but when I boot into the xen-hypervisor kernel,  
> kudzu crashes 

Known, and we're working on it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179013

> and eth0 won't come up -- it says no such device.

It would be really helpful if you could try the 1.2009.4.2 kernel from
rawhide (you'll need to update the xen rpm too.)

> I think the problem has something to do with PCI under the xen  
> kernel.  Running lspci under the xen kernel returns absolutely  
> nothing, and there is nothing in /proc/pci either.  This happens with  
> both the stock 1955 kernel and the updated 2009 kernel. 

Plain 1.2009 or 1.2009.4.2?

> It's a desktop system, but it has a mobile Athlon XP 2800+ on a cheap  
> PC Chips motherboard, with a SiS 760 GX northbridge and a SiS 964  
> southbridge.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this or know of a possible fix?

I haven't heard it reported before; please open a bugzilla, as we'll
need to collect proper kernel log info to dig into this.

Thanks,
 Stephen