From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ls2Wk-000647-NH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:15:18 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ls2Wg-00061B-2j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:15:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48961 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ls2Wf-000618-Oo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:15:13 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f111.google.com ([209.85.221.111]:46592) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ls2Wf-0004qj-EZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:15:13 -0400 Received: by qyk9 with SMTP id 9so1494508qyk.4 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:15:06 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <49DE5F68.2010108@gmx.net> References: <1239292380-10032-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> <49DE34D2.3000803@us.ibm.com> <49DE5F68.2010108@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:15:06 -0300 Message-ID: <5d6222a80904091515y18f7650eh80ece22f597ff33e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] register a single area for vga bios and option roms From: Glauber Costa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: jan.kiszka@siemens.com, Glauber Costa > > AFAIK shadowed option ROMs can be aligned at 1 kB boundaries and may > modify themselves. Quite a few VGA BIOSes do that to reduce their memory > footprint after hardware initialization is complete. > Are you suggesting we drop the IO_MEM_ROM flag from the registration function? KVM already does that for its own purposes, I would not oppose such a change in any way. -- Glauber Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."