On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 07:48:36PM +0200, Robin Axelsson wrote: > Hi, > I have compiled Jeremy's kernel on Fedora 14 and it turned out that > xen-pciback is compiled into the kernel as a module. So I made a > "xen-pciback.conf" file in /etc/modprobe.d. The problem is that I have > to get modprobe to load before the drivers to the PCI devices I want to > hide are loaded. > > So my question is how do I locate the drivers and find the points in the > boot scripts where I can put the modprobe so that it is loaded before > them? I tried lsmod and modinfo but they don't give much information. I > only managed to find the driver for the Intel EXPI9400PT adapter e1000e. > > I want to hide the graphics adapter (Radeon 5450), Two USB2.0 ports, the > Intel adapter, the USB3.0 controller and the Audio device, their > assignments on machine are as follows: > > pci_0000_00_02_0 (GPU) > pci_0000_00_12_0 (USB 2.0 should give 2 ports) > pci_0000_00_14_2 (Audio device) > pci_0000_00_0a_0 (Intel Adapter) > pci_0000_00_09_0 (USB 3.0 Interface) > > but the question is where can I locate their drivers and how can I tap > into the boot sequence so that the xen-pciback driver is loaded > beforehand? The page > > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Assign_hardware_to_DomU_with_PCIBack_as_module > > gives no information about this. It mentions something about "install > skge ... " but it doesn't say where this line is to be put and how you > figure out that skge is the driver to be disabled. > You probably should add the modules to be loaded from initrd image. Are you using mkinitrd? If yes, there's an option to preload modules.. -- Pasi > I have set up the machine to init level 3 in the /etc/inittab (my > install of F14 have no upstart targets). The xen-pciback module seems to > be working. Something is wrong with the onboard sound chip. No drivers > have ever successfully initiated it, neither in Windows nor Linux. So it > is marked as an assignable device when looking it up with xm. > > Regards > > Robin. > > -- > xen mailing list > xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen -- xen mailing list xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
