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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] QEMU - provide e820 reserve through
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, KVM General <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

On 01/25/10 22:08, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 25.01.2010, at 22:05, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Only problem is that we don't really have a way to pass back info
>> saying 'you messed up trying to pinch an area that the BIOS wants
>> for itself'.
>
> Eh - the BIOS shouldn't even try to use regions that are declared as reserved using this interface.
> I guess we're mostly talking about DMI and ACPI tables. They can be anywhere in RAM.

What I had in mind with the above was the situation where a user tries
to reserve a region that is hardcoded into the BIOS, such as the address
of the BIOS text/data etc.

I don't think it would be a real problem anyway, if some user wants to
play with it, they have to take the risk of shooting themself in the
foot :)

Cheers,
Jes