[Xen-users] Intel Z270 support

[Aaron Gray]

I have two ASUS PRIME Z270-A machines based on Intel Z270 chipset and am
wondering about when support will be available for them and what I can do
to speed this up.

But I have not done anything to do with kernel work since years ago when I
read a lot of the main parts of the Linux 2.4 Kernel. Also I did code to
get into and out of protected mode before this.

Heres the datasheets that cover the chipset :-

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/200-series-chipset-pch-datasheet-vol-1.html
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/200-series-chipset-pch-datasheet-vol-2.html

Regards,

Aaron

[Eric Duncan]

Post by Aaron Gray
I have two ASUS PRIME Z270-A machines based on Intel Z270 chipset and am
wondering about when support will be available for them and what I can do
to speed this up.
But I have not done anything to do with kernel work since years ago when I
read a lot of the main parts of the Linux 2.4 Kernel. Also I did code to
get into and out of protected mode before this.
Heres the datasheets that cover the chipset :-
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/200-series-chipset-pch-datasheet-vol-1.html
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/200-series-chipset-pch-datasheet-vol-2.html
Regards,
Aaron

It's your Linux kernel that needs to support your hardware, not Xen itself.

I personally run Xen with an Arch Linux dom0 specifically for this purpose
of getting the latest hardware support across my devices. For example, I
am on kernel 4.18.10 at this moment. The AUR also keeps a fairly recent
version of Xen, currently 4.11.

-E

[Aaron Gray]

Post by Eric Duncan

Post by Aaron Gray
I have two ASUS PRIME Z270-A machines based on Intel Z270 chipset and am
wondering about when support will be available for them and what I can do
to speed this up.
But I have not done anything to do with kernel work since years ago when
I read a lot of the main parts of the Linux 2.4 Kernel. Also I did code to
get into and out of protected mode before this.
Heres the datasheets that cover the chipset :-
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/200-series-chipset-pch-datasheet-vol-1.html
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/200-series-chipset-pch-datasheet-vol-2.html
Regards,
Aaron

It's your Linux kernel that needs to support your hardware, not Xen itself.
I personally run Xen with an Arch Linux dom0 specifically for this purpose
of getting the latest hardware support across my devices. For example, I
am on kernel 4.18.10 at this moment. The AUR also keeps a fairly recent
version of Xen, currently 4.11.

That sounds an interesting direction I would try Arch if I was not trying
to get Xen Fedora rawhide sussed as I need this step to get my machine
architecture working with Qubes.

F29 Beta has 4.11.0

At present I have one instillation on F29 that worked straight away with :-

sudo yum groupinstall 'Virtualization'
sudo yum install xen

And another were I did a yum update first and Xen it does not function with
the missing module.mod and multiboot.mod issue that was found in F27 and
F28.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486002#c36

I just need to do the diff's on /boot and the rpm's tomorrow to see what if
I can find the issue.

Regards,

Aaron