From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kdqxg-0002mW-7F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:32:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kdqxe-0002kL-SD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:32:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41296 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kdqxe-0002jy-Mz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:32:10 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:59074) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kdqxe-00055t-L0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:32:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:31:20 -0300 From: Glauber Costa Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] split memory allocation Message-ID: <20080911183120.GA25542@poweredge.glommer> References: <1221140541-24464-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <48C92E87.3080505@us.ibm.com> <48C93962.7080608@qumranet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48C93962.7080608@qumranet.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 06:29:38PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> It's not really a hole. QEMU leaves a hole from 0xa0000 to 0xc0000 >> because this is the VGA area. KVM remaps this range to normal RAM >> when the guest sets the VGA card to have a linear framebuffer as an >> optimization. >> > > kvm doesn't remap it to normal RAM, it remaps it to a framebuffer. So > from the RAM viewpoint, it is a hole. for VGA yes, but the said "hole" is much bigger than the vga space itself. Not all of it is "hole". > > -- > error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function >