From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
seabios@seabios.org, "László Érsek" <lersek@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:03:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f744cad-f67b-92d3-b4e4-32f8b05c643c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmstu19t.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
On 22.03.2017 10:08, Markus Armbruster wrote:
[...]
> Are we now ready to accept a simple & stupid patch that actually helps
> users, say letting boards that care declare minimum and maximum RAM
> size? And make PC reject RAM size less than 1MiB, even though "someone"
> might conceivably have firmware that works with less?
I'd say enforce a minimum RAM size on the normal "pc" and "q35" machine,
but still allow smaller sizes on the "isapc" machine. So if "someone"
comes around and claims to have a legacy firmware that wants less memory
than 1MiB, just point them to the isapc machine.
Just my 0.02 €.
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-22 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-22 9:08 [Qemu-devel] Minimum RAM size for PC machines? Markus Armbruster
2017-03-22 10:03 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2017-03-22 10:19 ` David Hildenbrand
2017-03-23 8:19 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-03-23 9:18 ` David Hildenbrand
2017-03-22 12:25 ` Igor Mammedov
2017-03-22 15:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] " Kevin O'Connor
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