From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Korolev <alexey.korolev@endace.com>
Cc: sfd@endace.com, yamahata@valinux.co.jp, seabios@seabios.org,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, gleb@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [BUG] [Seabios] PCI 64bit BARs on Win2008 - unable to start the device. (ACPI lacks the _DSM method)
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:31:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111205063151.GE22501@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EDC4690.1060604@endace.com>
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 05:20:32PM +1300, Alexey Korolev wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thank you for good advice, you are right. When I added new range
> above 4GB in _CRS the problem has gone.
> QWordMemory (ResourceProducer, PosDecode, MinFixed, MaxFixed,
> NonCacheable, ReadWrite,
> 0x00000000, // Address Space Granularity
> 0x100000000, // Address Range Minimum
> 0x3FFFFFFFF, // Address Range Maximum
> 0x00000000, // Address Translation Offset
> 0x400000000, // Address Length
> ,, , AddressRangeMemory, TypeStatic)
>
> The only big problem with this range - as soon as I have more than
> 3GB of RAM, windows will boot in BSOD. The problem relates to memory
> range intersection.
> Unfortunately it is not possible to predict how many GB of RAM the
> virtual machine could have - so it's difficult to specify a
> particular region.
> Do you have any ideas what can be done to solve this problem?
>
> Regards,
> Alexey
Two possible ideas:
1. Pass the value in from qemu
2. Get a range toward the upper end of the memory, around 1<<40
> >On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 06:49:54PM +1300, Alexey Korolev wrote:
> >>Isaku san,
> >>
> >>I've just added you to discussion.
> >>There are some issues with PCI 64bit support in Windows. Windows
> >>fails to assign the resource if it doesn't fit in first 4GB window.
> >>
> >>I really don't know why it happens.
> >>One of the possibilities is related to lack of _DSM method in ACPI.
> >>
> >>Another guesse could be related to the fact that 440FX only supports
> >>32bit PCI bus interface and windows may limit PCI address range to
> >>first 4GB for PCI devices under this bridge.
> >>I remember you were working on Q35 chipset simulation, I wonder if
> >>it is working and would it be possible to try?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Alexey
> >Maybe the range above 4G needs to be declared in the _CRS
> >resource?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-05 6:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-30 1:04 [Qemu-devel] [BUG] [Seabios] PCI 64bit BARs on Win2008 - unable to start the device. (ACPI lacks the _DSM method) Alexey Korolev
2011-11-30 7:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-12-01 5:19 ` Alexey Korolev
2011-12-01 11:25 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-01 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-05 4:29 ` Alexey Korolev
2011-12-12 8:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-13 4:19 ` Alexey Korolev
2011-12-14 4:30 ` Alexey Korolev
2011-12-14 5:10 ` Kevin O'Connor
2011-12-15 8:48 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-16 4:41 ` Alexey Korolev
2011-12-16 9:23 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-01 5:49 ` Alexey Korolev
2011-12-01 10:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-12-05 4:20 ` Alexey Korolev
2011-12-05 6:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2011-12-06 4:23 ` Alexey Korolev
2011-12-13 11:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] " Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-14 4:31 ` Alexey Korolev
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