From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXG4J-0003zU-JN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:55:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXG4I-0003yu-Uo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:55:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33742 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXG4I-0003yr-KD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:55:46 -0400 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:39325) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KXG4I-0007ve-2P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:55:46 -0400 Message-ID: <48B16860.5010207@qumranet.com> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:55:44 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Add UUID command-line option References: <20080824113258.5652.92531.stgit@gleb-debian.qumranet.com.qumranet.com> <20080824122423.GA6192@minantech.com> <48B15D87.9000000@qumranet.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Blue Swirl wrote: > True, but realistic probing for memory could take some time if there > is a huge amount of it. No reason for that. A binary search with a cap of 1TB and a granularity of 1MB requires only 20 probes. > Moreover, this level of precision would not > gain anything in Qemu use, it would be unnecessary. If Bochs BIOS was > aiming to be used as a real, physical PC BIOS in the future, then > these kind of improvements might be useful. > > Agree, it isn't necessary. > A long time ago on Sparc32, I put the memory size to one of CPU > registers. That was quick and easy for both sides but dirty. > For x86 it seems like an obvious candidate for vmport (and I don't understand the object to using vmport for uuid). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function