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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: "Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@intel.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: bios: Put AP boot up code to 0x1000
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:49:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4893307A.5000605@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489189E0.8070804@qumranet.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> 
> IIRC the rombios32.c writes to the memory it is in, so it expects RAM, 
> not ROM.
> 
> kvm doesn't support ROM, so it would work.  Qemu doesn't, so it would fail.
> 

You can specify either RAM or ROM in Qemu, but you have to edit the C code.

If you need RAM in the low 640K, your choices are roughly 0x300..0x340 
or in the EBDA.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-01 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-31  2:43 [PATCH] kvm: bios: Put AP boot up code to 0x1000 Yang, Sheng
2008-07-31  6:00 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-07-31  6:41   ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-31  9:09     ` Yang, Sheng
2008-07-31  9:46       ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-01 15:49         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-07-31 21:15 ` Sebastian Herbszt
2008-08-01  1:19   ` Yang, Sheng
2008-08-02 19:30     ` Sebastian Herbszt
2008-08-05  8:14       ` Yang, Sheng
2008-08-06 21:56         ` Sebastian Herbszt
2008-08-10  7:50           ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-13 23:00             ` Sebastian Herbszt
2008-08-14  6:08               ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-17 22:35             ` [PATCH] kvm: bios: end AP boot code execution in rombios Sebastian Herbszt
2008-08-18  2:33               ` Anthony Liguori
2008-08-18  2:45                 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-08-18 10:21                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-18 10:22               ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-19 23:06                 ` Sebastian Herbszt

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