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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Modeling x86 early initialization accurately
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:37:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811261137.56040.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492C80BF.4010103@gmx.net>

> - Start up with all RAM being readonly. Writes should be discarded,
> reads will usually return 0xff or be undefined. The "undefined" variant
> would allow the code to allocate RAM once and just switch write access
> on/off.

Does anything actually rely on this behavior?
I can see the need to the other bits, but it seems kinda strange that anything 
would rely on RAM being readonly. This seems more like a coreboot bug than 
anything else.

Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-26 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-25 22:48 [Qemu-devel] Modeling x86 early initialization accurately Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2008-11-26  2:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-26  3:26   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2008-11-26 16:36     ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-27  2:05       ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2008-11-27 13:28         ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-27 14:22           ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2008-11-26 11:37 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-11-26 13:29   ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger

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