Bug#496173: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: nVidia driver complains that it's a XEN kernel

#1 08-27-2008, 02:10 PM

I am also experiencing the same problem.

No this is not a bug in the NVidia installer.

steven:~# grep -i xen /boot/config-2.6.25-2-686
CONFIG_XEN=y
CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND=m
CONFIG_NETXEN_NIC=m
CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND=m
CONFIG_HVC_XEN=y
steven:~#

This is a valid bug in the kernel configuration for this package.

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#2 08-27-2008, 03:10 PM

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:45:32PM -0500, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
> No this is not a bug in the NVidia installer.

If you believe this is a bug in the kernel please provide evidence. The
XEN entry in the config is no valid indicator.

Bastian

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#3 08-27-2008, 06:20 PM

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 12:45 -0500, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
> I am also experiencing the same problem.
>
> No this is not a bug in the NVidia installer.

Yes it is.

> steven:~# grep -i xen /boot/config-2.6.25-2-686
> CONFIG_XEN=y
> CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND=m
> CONFIG_NETXEN_NIC=m
> CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND=m
> CONFIG_HVC_XEN=y
> steven:~#
>
> This is a valid bug in the kernel configuration for this package.

Please see my reply to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482305 and other
messages in the various related bugs.

The enabling of these settings in the 686 kernel is quite deliberate and
the bug lies in the nvidia scripts/packaging which incorrectly assumes
that CONFIG_XEN=y => incompatible with Nvidia, this is not true with the
paravirt_ops style of Xen support present in kernels 2.6.22 and later
(and enabled in Debian around 2.6.24 or 25 or so).

I believe this issue is fixed in the nvidia-source packages in sid and
probably lenny too. If you are not using these you should take the issue
up with nvidia.

Ian.
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