From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Running GRUB under qemu on PowerPC
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:22:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200507768.3307.7.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080116104039.GA10888@thorin>
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 11:40 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:19:49AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >
> > The unresolved problem is that the "/memory/available" property is not
> > available. I get the "grub rescue" prompt, but all commands fail with
> > "out of memory".
>
> Does this mean all memory is ours to deal with as pleased? :-)
>
> I suggest you try poking it by trying to read all existing memory in your
> address space.
I guess the simplest approach would be to assume that we have a certain
amount of memory that would be enough for GRUB. The issue with
"/memory/available" is known to Open Hack'Ware developers:
http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4-pre2/README
I guess they didn't implement a decent memory probe.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-16 8:19 [PATCH] Running GRUB under qemu on PowerPC Pavel Roskin
2008-01-16 10:40 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-16 18:22 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-01-16 19:33 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-16 21:52 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-16 22:51 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-18 5:07 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-18 15:05 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-23 11:07 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-23 11:22 ` Robert Millan
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