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From: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Funny -m arguments can crash
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 04:56:53PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> IMO we need to fix CMOS reporting.
> 
> (technically we shouldn't touch CMOS NVRAM at all; seabios should
> discover memory size via fwcfg and program it itself.  But it's
> pointless to change it now)

It would be nice to pass all values via fw_cfg instead of cmos.  Using
the cmos to pass valus is cumbersome.

If there is some desire to specify memory to a finer granularity than
1MiB (and frankly I'm struggling to understand the desire for that),
then lets pass it via fw_cfg instead of cmos.

-Kevin