From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38077) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VepfE-0004Px-UW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2013 12:16:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vepf8-00077m-S2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2013 12:16:08 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34225) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vepf8-00077g-Ka for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2013 12:16:02 -0500 Message-ID: <527D1C49.2040005@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 18:15:53 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1383511723-11228-1-git-send-email-marcel.a@redhat.com> <527D0652.9020805@suse.de> <527D0F29.40802@redhat.com> <527D1AD5.10503@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <527D1AD5.10503@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] exec: fix regression by making system-memory region UINT64_MAX size List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= Cc: Peter Maydell , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Laszlo Ersek , Marcel Apfelbaum , qemu-devel , Anthony Liguori , Jan Kiszka , Jordan Justen , rth@twiddle.net Il 08/11/2013 18:09, Andreas F=C3=A4rber ha scritto: > I don't have personal experience with using external files there yet, > but I was hoping that using -pflash pc-bios/bios.bin would just work > since that'll be symlinked for execution from build directory iiuc. >=20 > My thinking was the test could then verify that the BIOS does not read > as all 0xff, whereas Paolo's suggestion sounds more elaborate, ruling > out actual 0xff within SeaBIOS by having a positive pattern to check fo= r. Yeah, that's also a good test and easier! Paolo