[Barrelfish-users] Booting Barrelfish on NUMA architecture

[Gerd Zellweger]

Hi Ke Ding,

There is a bug in the SKB that prevents it from using high memory addresses (i.e., >32 bit) for bus programming. I suspect this is the problem you are facing here. In case you are not using PCI(e) hardware you can just remove the PCI service (and probably serial) from the menu.lst file in order get rid of the error. Barrelfish will continue to work just fine except that you may not be able to use networking etc.

Gerd

丁科 <dingke at ict.ac.cn> wrote:

>Hi all,
>      I am getting these errors while booting Barrelfish in dawning server. The server is NUMA architecture, there are 16 CPUs of  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz 64(bits).
> The log as follow:
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      all 16 monitors up
>      monitor: synchronizing clocks
>      spawnd.0: spawning /x86_64/sbin/pic on core 0
>      startd.0: starting app /x86_64/sbin/serial on core 0
>      spawnd.0: spawning /x86_64/sbin/serial on core 0
>      startd.0: starting app /x86_64/sbin/fish on core 0
>      spawnd.0: spawning /x86_64/sbin/fish on core 0
>      No bootscript
>      skb.0: waiting for: pci
>      skb.0: waiting for: serial
>      pci.c: pci_program_bridges(): SKB returned error code 1
>      SKB error returned:
>      SKB output:
>      WARNING: CONTINUING. HOWEVER PCI DEVICES WILL BE UNUSABLE
>      kernel: 0: installing handler for IQR 1
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      My barrelfish version is Barrelfish-fe95001b2235.
>      Please tell me why and how to do about it?
>
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>Ke Ding
>
>dingke at ict.ac.cn
>
>Institute Of Computing Technology Chinese Academy Of Sciences
>
>
>
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