On 2011-05-06 08:03, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > 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 issued the command mkinitrd -v -f --preload xen-pciback /boot/initramfs-2.6.32.39.img 2.6.32.39 and I noticed that the initramfs image file generated is considerably smaller than the initramfs imagefile generated by dracut. The dracut file is a bit over 80 MB whereas the new one is less than 8 MB. But the preload doesn't load the xen-pciback module. After the reboot when I list assignable PCI devices using xm, Xen returns nothing. If I issue 'modprobe xen-pciback' and then list the devices using xm I get one entry. What's wrong? >> 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
