how to install Genode on PC machine

[Jian Liu]

2013/4/10 Ivan Loskutov <loskutov.ivan at ...9...>

>
> 2013/4/10 yuqing wang <happymoodmglm at ...9...>
>
>> I downgrade qemu,fedora can start now.
>> But fedora can not connect to the internet in qemu,it is strange.The log
>> file is attached.
>>
> For connect to the internet you need configure ethernet in l4linux. I
> didn't do auto configuration in this rootfs. Try do:
> ifconfig eth0 up
> dhclient eth0& - if you use dhcp server in your network.
>
>
>
>> My research is based on the network of l4linux running on real machine,I
>> think if i have a try of your experiment about network performance of
>> l4linux ,it would help me a lot.
>>  My PC hardware:
>> motherboard:        Intel Q77
>> CPU:                     Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
>> Ethernet:               intel 82579LM
>> RAM:                     4G
>> I burn the fedora.iso in a cd,try to run it on my PC,but the l4linux
>> hangs,show these message:
>>
>> [ 60.001054]INFO:rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 1} (detected
>> by 0, t= 6002 jiffies)
>> [ 60.001657]INFO:Stall ended before state dump start
>> [ 236.893706]INFO:rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 1} (detected
>> by 0, t= 24007 jiffies)
>> [ 236.894303]INFO:Stall ended before state dump start
>> [ 413.786348]INFO:rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 1} (detected
>> by 0, t= 42012 jiffies)
>> [ 413.786943]INFO:Stall ended before state dump start
>> [ 590.678987]INFO:rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 1} (detected
>> by 0, t= 60017 jiffies)
>> [ 590.679596]INFO:Stall ended before state dump start
>>
>> I am not sure whether it's something wrong during my build process or my
>> hardware don't fit the l4linux.
>> Could you make your fedora.iso file available on net ,so i can download
>> and have a try .I think this would help me to find where is wrong.
>>
> I have issues with boot on real hardware too. I've tried use Grub 1, Grub
> 2 and iPXE for boot.
> My target PC has memory layout different from qemu, this part of log l4
> bootstraper from my PC:
>
> Limiting RAM region   [ bce73000,  bcffffff] {   18d000} to   [ bce73000,
>  bcffffff] {   18d000} due to 3024 MB limit
>   Dropping RAM region   [100000000, 23e5fffff] {13e600000} due to 3024 MB
> limit
>   RAM: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009ebff: 635kB
>   RAM: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fffffff: 523264kB
>   RAM: 0000000020200000 - 000000003fffffff: 522240kB
>   RAM: 0000000040200000 - 00000000bbd36fff: 2026716kB
>   RAM: 00000000bcde8000 - 00000000bcde8fff: 4kB
>   RAM: 00000000bce73000 - 00000000bcffffff: 1588kB
>
> Memory is not continious.  And Genode's memory manager has strange
> behavior with this. May be people from Genode can help with this.
> I've temporary solve this issue via hardcode start loading adress to
> 0x40200000 in iPXE multiboot loader. And I've modify bootstrap modaddr to
> 0x80000000.
> With these changes I can boot PC but have only 2G memory for using. I
> don't try to understand how to work it yet. I'm going to prepare more
> information and open issue on Genode's bug tracker.
>
> Maybe you have the same issue for your hardware.
>

 Hi Ivan,

    I did the same Ethenet driver test in my PC. I also met the same
problem like yuqing's email, which say some thing related to "rcu_sched
detected stalls" work wrong. But your email says it is involved with errors
for RAM. Moreover, I tested your script on a old PC which have only 2G RAM,
but L4Linux can also not boot crrectly in this machine. So, I am puzzled
with two questions:

1) Why we need iPXE booting? Is there any right configure for Grub booting?
2) Is it the real reason for testing failure the the NIC driver error is
involved with RAM configure.

    Best,

    Jian
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